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At a Meeting of the Council of THE SURTEES SOCIETY held in
Durham Castle on December 5th, 1893, the Eev. William
Greenwell in the Chair, it was
EESOLVED, That the Chapter Act Book of Beverley Minster
should be edited for the Society by Mr. Arthur F. Leach.
JAMES RAINE,
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MEMORIALS
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BEVEELEY MINSTEE:
THE -CHAPTER ACT BOOK
OF THE
COLLEGIATE CHUECH OF S, JOHN OE BEVEKLEY
A.D. 1286—1347
WITH ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS
AND
INTRODUCTION
BY
ARTHUR FRANCIS LEACH, M.A., F.S.A.
FORMERLY FELLOW OF ALL SOULS' COLLEGE, OXFORD
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . v-cviii
CORRECTION or CRITICS . . . iv-vii
THE PROVOSTS AND THEIR CAREERS . vii-c
THE CREATION OF THE VICARAGE . . ci-ciii
THE CONTINUANCE OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL ciii-cviii
LISTS OF PROVOSTS .. . . . . . . cviii-cxii
TEXT OF THE CHAPTER ACT BOOK, 1322-1347 . , . 1—136
EXTRACTS FROM KEGISTERS OF ARCHBISHOPS . . . 137 — 265
ARCHBISHOP WICKWAINE, 1279-1281 . 137 — 148
„ KOMANUS, 1286-1295 . . 148—174
„ CORBRIDGE, 1300-1304 . . 174—202
„ NEVILLE, 1381 . . . 202—265
ARCHBISHOP ARUNDEL'S STATUTES, 1391, 1398 . . . 265 — 279
KING ATHELSTAN'S KHYMED CHARTER, WITH TRANSLATION . 280 — 287
KING STEPHEN'S CHARTERS, 1135 ..... 288
LANSDOWNE CHARTERS, 1135-1250 . . . . . 289—297
INVITATION TO TRANSLATION OF S. WILLIAM OF YORK, 1284 . 298—9
CONTRACT FOR S. JOHN OF BEVERLEY'S SHRINE , 1292 . . 299
ARCHBISHOPS' LETTERS, 1304-1314 ..... 301—4
THE ORDER OF FAIR EASE . - „ . . . 304—5
EXTRACTS FROM THE PROVOST'S BOOK, 1417 . . . 305—345
LELAND'S NOTICES OF BEVERLEY, 1532 .... 345 — 353
CHANTRY CERTIFICATE (SO-CALLED), 1552 .... 353
DECREE OF EXCHEQUER FOR MINSTER LANDS, 1552 . . 353—7
TERRIER OF CHANTRIES AND FABRIC LANDS, 1552 . . 357—366
INDEX .... , 366—389
BEVEELEY MINSTEE.
THE first volume of this book, which appeared in 1898, con-
tained the text of the Chapter Act Book, or Minute Book,
of the canons of Beverley Minster from the beginning in
the year 1286 down to the year 1322. This second volume
completes the Chapter Act Book which extends down to
1340, with a casual will of 1347, and accompanies and illus-
trates it by documents taken from the contemporary Registers
of the Archbishops of York, the Lansdowne charters in the
British Museum, and elsewhere. Then follow extracts from
and an analysis of the Provost's Book, a fifteenth-century
compilation on the rights of the Provost of Beverley, now
preserved in the Minster. It concludes with some docu-
ments showing the fate of the Minster and of some of its
endowments at the dissolution of Colleges and Chantries in
the second year of Edward VI., 1548, when the history of
this famous foundation, after an existence of 615 years, was
brought to an abrupt conclusion.
The foundation, early history, and constitution of this
ancient college, as revealed in the documents printed, were
fully treated in the first volume, and need not be further
treated here. Some criticisms, however, which appeared on
the first volume, and were both captious and incorrect, may
here be answered in further elucidation of that history.
The Provost, it was pointed out, occupied a very peculiar
and exceptional position, being quite a different kind of
functionary from the usual head of a college, a Dean or a
Warden; and his title was said to be "a foreign title."
What, says the critic, how foreign ; was there not a Provost
of Eton ? Why, certainly there was ; and earlier than that
there was a Provost of Wingham, 1380, a Provost of Queen's
College, Oxford, 1321 ; and still earlier, in 1300, a Provost
of S. Elizabeth's College, Winchester. But the fact that a
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CHAPTER ACT BOOK.
certain title was occasionally used in the fifteenth and later
centuries, does not the less make it a foreign title when first
introduced in the tenth or eleventh century and unique in
England in the twelfth century. The title of Marquis was a
foreign title in England in the fifteenth century, and is, pace
the critic, still a foreign title never thoroughly acclimatised,
though the Marquess of Winchester, the Marquess of Exeter,
and the Marquess of Salisbury are English peers. But the
critic is seemingly not aware that the title of Provost of
Eton was itself almost certainly derived from a new importa-
tion direct from abroad. Eton College is, as is well known,
a direct offshoot of Winchester College, and was in fact the
creation of Wykehamist statesmen, Archbishop Chicheley,
Bishop Beckington, and Wayneflete, Headmaster of Win-
chester and first Provost. The title of Provost was, for much
the same reason as Cambridge was selected instead of Oxford
as the University to which the sister college of King's was
attached, undoubtedly selected by them for the head of S.
Mary College of Eton, on purpose to distinguish it from that
of Warden given to the head of S. Mary College of Win-
chester. Its selection was without doubt suggested by the
title of the head of " the Old College," as it was called, of
Winchester, in contradistinction to "the New College," as
the present Winchester College, with its sister college at
Oxford, was commonly called till the reign of Henry VIII.
It stood next door to the New College, and long served as an
adjunct to it by receiving boys to board there and attend
the College School, and the site of it is now swallowed up
in the Warden's garden and its stones in ' ' Meads " wall.
This was the College of S. Elizabeth of Hungary, founded
in 1300 by a foreign Bishop, John of Pontissara, in honour
of a foreign saint, unhonoured in England before or (pro-
bably) since, and whose head was given the foreign title of
Provost, familiar enough in the land from which the Bishop
came, but then unique in England except for the Provost of
Beverley. In spite of imitation in the same generation at
Queen's College, Oxford, 1318, and Oriel College, Oxford,
1327, even the greatness of Eton and King's could not give
vogue to the title of Provost, though an early King's man,
Thomas of Rotherham, adopted it for his Jesus College of
THE DIGNITARIES. Vll
Rotherham in 1480. Dean and Warden, or in later times the
colourless Master, which was the usual title in Hospitals,
remained the predominant titles of English Collegiate insti-
tutions until the Reformation.
The same critic was scornful because the Precentor,
Treasurer, and Chancellor were described as dignitaries or
officers. The Introduction, says he,* is "vitiated from the
fact that Mr. Leach appears to have been ignorant of the
distinction between an c office ' and a ' dignity ' in a secular
chapter," and he goes on through a page to enlarge on the
awfulness of the ignorance and its results; and to refer to
Van Espen, D'Hencourt, <e and other standard works of that
class."
The simple reasons why these officers, as they are com-
monly called, were also described by me as dignitaries, were,
first, because they were so, as they were at most cathedral or
ancient collegiate churches, and secondly, because these
particular officers at Beverley are specifically so described in
an official document published in this volume (p. 342), when
a jury of the men of Beverley in the year 1425 solemnly found
that " there are in the said collegiate church, t three dignities,
viz. the Precentorship, Chancellorship, and Sacristy," the
Sacrist being the person elsewhere commonly, and at Beverley
often, called the Treasurer. The men of Beverley and the
bailiffs of the Archbishop who took the inquisition may perhaps
be allowed to have known as much about the constitution of
the then living collegiate church of Beverley as the critic who
discourses d priori on the subject 400 years after its decease.
THE PROVOSTS.
It was intended in this volume to provide what Torre in
his collections calls " a close catalogue " of the Provosts and
canons of Beverley, so far as they could be collected, with
illustrative references to their careers and doings.
With sufficient labour a very close catalogue could pro-
* The Antiquary, vol. xxxiv. 290.
+ I may remark that the text contains a misprint of " collegiate " for
"collegiate."
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Vlll THE PROVOSTS.
bably be collected. But with Mr. Matthew Arnold in his
inaugural address as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, one
has to ask oneself, is it tanti ? And in plain English it does
not seem worth while, so far as the canons are concerned.
Nearly all the Provosts and most of the canons of Beverley
were created by way of reward or gratuity for their civil services.
From Provost Thomas aBecket, who governed all England under
Henry II., and Provost John Mansel, who to a great extent
ruled it under Henry III., to Provost Thomas Winter, the son
of Thomas Wolsey, the prime minister temporal and spiritual
of Henry VIII., there was hardly one whose career was not
rather part of the history of England than of that of Beverley
or its Minster. So, too, with the canons. Our friend Walter
of Gloucester, who figures so often in these volumes from his
appointment in 1279 (ii. 137) to the prebend, which we learn
(i. 282) was that of S. Andrew, the prebendal house of which
still stands at the corner of Lurk (properly Lorte) Lane, to
the probate of his will on 17 Jan. 131 £ (i. 271), and was for
some years a residentiary canon, was a successful Exchequer
official and lawyer, and for many years held the office of King's
Escheator north of Trent.* No doubt he owed his canonry
to his office; just as much as two generations later William
of Wykeham, who from 24 Sept., 1361,f held, with a score
of other canonries in various cathedral and collegiate churches
in England, Wales, and Ireland, the prebend of S. Mary in
the collegiate church of Beverley, owed his appointments to
his usefulness as a man of business and paymaster for the
King's castles. To collect a catalogue of all these successful
King's clerks or civil servants and common and ecclesiastical
lawyers, and a precis of their doings and appointments, such
as Canon Fowler has partially accomplished for the eccle-
siastical appointments of the canons of Bipon Minster, would
be a task as endless as voluminous, and would perhaps not be
particularly relevant as Memorials of Beverley Minster.
In the case of the Provosts down to and including those
who appear in the Chapter Act Book some effort of the sort
* Foss, ii. 256. It is, however, probable that Foss has confused two Walters of
Gloucester ; as one who was a Baron of the Exchequer was summoned to Parlia-
ment in June, 1311, six months after our Walter's death.
f Moberly's Life of Wykeham, p. 44.
PROVOST THOMAS THE YOUNGER, 1092-1108. 1*X
must be made, as the lists of Provosts hitherto given, and
the dates assigned to them by former writers on Beverley
or its Minster from the days of Simon Russell, who wrote in
January, 1417 (p. 307) downwards, are in a state of great
confusion. Some of the documents now printed help to clear
this confusion up, Mr. W. Brown has added dates from the
Archbishops' Registers, while Calendars of Patent and Close
Rolls and of Papal Registers contribute information as far
as they have yet gone.
It is hopeless to attempt to produce the names of any
Provosts before the Conquest, if such there were, as is
suggested in the preface to the first volume (i. xxxvii. cf.
xxi. and note). We may therefore start with Thomas the
younger, king's chaplain, nephew of Thomas the elder, first
Norman Archbishop, as Provost from 1092 (p. 332, cf. vol. i.
p. xxxviii.) till in 1108 he was elected Bishop of London, and
the same year, before consecration, transferred to the arch-
bishopric of York. He had found the Provostry a soft place,
as it is recorded of him that he preferred to make profession
of obedience to the rival Archbishop of Canterbury, rather
than go to Rome about it, as he was so fat.
The identification of the Thurstan, who is reputed to be
the second Provost, with the Archbishop of York of that
name, is a mistake, unless there were two Provosts of the
same name succeeding each other who have been rolled into
one. The identification was probably first started by Simon
Russell in the Provost's Book, in his list of Provosts, or
rather lists, for he gives two (pp. 306 and 334 seq). Yet
in that very book he has given a document which refutes
the identification, namely a deed addressed by William de
Roumara, Earl of Lincoln, to William Archbishop of York
and the Chapters of York and Beverley concerning the
manor of Benseley (Bentley ?), which having been part of the
ancient property of S. John, he restored and confirmed to
Provost Thurstan and his successors. The fact that the
grant was made to Provost Thurstan when William was
Archbishop is of itself sufficient to demonstrate that Thurstan
the Provost was a different person from Thurstan the Arch-
bishop. Archbishop Thurstan who followed Thomas junior
X PROVOST THOMAS THE NORMAN, 1108-32.
and preceded William in the see, resigned in 1139 and died
shortly after, 8 Idus Februarii, llff. William who became
S. William, was elected 1140, consecrated 1143, suspended
by the Pope in 1146 to make room for a monk, Henry
Murdac, and restored after the monk's death in 1154. This
grant must have been made during his first lease of power,
for Thurstan, the Provost, died according to John of Hexham*
in 1152 or 1153. Poulson gives a translation of the Earl's
grant, f and has a long note on it, but it never seems to have
occurred to him that it upsets the identification of the Arch-
bishop and Provost.
Indeed, Poulson made confusion worse confounded by not
only following Russell in identifying the two Thurstans, and
in placing Provost Thomas Normannus, the Norman, after
Provost Thurstan, but by also converting Provost Thomas
the Norman into an archbishop, which he never was. The
famous charters of Archbishops Thurstan and William to the
men of BeverleyJ ought to have saved him from both those
mistakes, since Thurstan's charter is witnessed by Thomas
the Provost and William's by Thurstan the Provost. But
this fact Poulson concealed from himself by translating
Tomas Prepositus and Turstinus Prepositus into Thomas
the Reeve and Turstin de Reeve ; though the fact that they
sign just before certain canons should have been sufficient
evidence that the persons so described were no mere lay
reeves or bailiffs but ecclesiastical dignitaries ; in fact, the
Provosts of the Minster of which the 'others were canons.
In Archbishop Thurstan's charter Thomas Provost is folio wed
by Thurstan Archdeacon, and he is no doubt the Arch-
deacon of Richmond of that name given in Le Neve's Fasti
as Archdeacon from 1130 to 1146 and was our Provost.
These two charters are of course conclusive that Provost
Thomas preceded and did not follow Provost Thurstan. So
Thurstan was not the second Provost but the third.
Thomas the Norman therefore succeeded Thomas the
younger, Archbishop of York, as the second Provost, and
held until at least 1132, when he was present at the founda-
* Surtees Society, vol. xliv. p. 166. f Beverlac, p. 527.
J Bevcrlcy Town Documents, 132-8, edited by A. F. Leach, Seldeu Society,
vol. xiv. C£. Rymer's Fcedera, i. 10 ; Poulson, p. 51.
PROVOST THtTRSTAN, 1132-53. xi
tion of Rievaulx Abbey,* while Thurstan the Archbishop
was Archbishop in 1114, and, after following the Pope about
France, succeeded in getting consecrated, without yielding
to Canterbury, in 1118. According to Simon Russell, Thomas
the Norman's sole distinction was that he granted away many
of the possessions of the Provostry to be held in fee by
hereditary right of the Provost, which before had been direct
possessions of the church. He obtained, however, from Pope
Honorius II., who reigned from 1124 to 1130, the bull given
in the Provost's Book (p. 332) " made by the intervention of
our venerable brother Turstin, Archbishop of York ; " — a
confirmation of the right of the church to its often contested
"thraves," its money and other ecclesiastical benefices in the
East Riding.
Provost Thurstan, the third Provost, did not become
Provost till Archbishop Thurstan had been Archbishop for
18 years at least, and the Provost survived the Archbishop
by at least a dozen years.
It seems probable that Robert, the fourth Provost, as given
by Simon Russell and his followers, and set down as " in the
times partly of King Henry I. and partly of King Stephen,
and partly of Archbishop Thurstin and partly of Henry
Murdac," never existed at all. Russell says that he " re-
covered some of the property alienated by Thomas, the
Norman, and was the first Provost, who, with the consent of
the chapter of Beverley, received homage and fealty from
the tenants of the Provostry out of the chapter house ; for
the services were theretofore rendered in chapter and not
elsewhere. In his time also the corrodies in the Bedern were
abated." Dugdale calls him Robert of G-ante, i.e. Ghent,
which Poulson prints Gaute, and credits him to 1135.
This date is, as we have seen, impossible, if Robert followed
Thurstan as Provost. His creation is perhaps due to the
desire to make room for another mistake which makes Thomas
a Becket Provost in 1139. Robert of Ghent was chancellor
of King Stephen t and Dean of York from 1142 to 1153, and
* Rievaulx Chartulary, p. 21. Surtees Society,
t Foss, i. 149.
WAS THERE A PROVOST ROGER, 1153 ?
therefore almost certainly was not Provost. If he ever was,
it was from 1132 to 1142.
Torre, on the other hand, inserts Roger the archbishop as
Provost. This, though not impossible, is supported only by a
single piece of evidence of no great authority, namely, an
anonymous Life of Becket, the earliest copy known of which is
a MS. at Paris of the middle'of the fifteenth century. This
anonymous author* says "at that time/' which the editor in
a marginal note interprets to be 1147, athe see of York
falling vacant by the death of Archbishop William, Theobald
the Archbishop of Canterbury in whose household Becket
was, endeavoured to get his archdeacon Roger preferred
thereto, that by this means he both might provide for the
dignity of his church of Canterbury and his own honour in
that of his clerk, and might open for Thomas a way to
greater things. When the said Roger had been consecrated to
York, without delay he (Theobald) assigned to Thomas the
archdeaconry of Canterbury and the Provostry of Beverley
which Roger had held." The editor's date of 1147 is of
course impossible, since as we have seen Henry Murdac was
then Archbishop, to be succeeded by the restored " Saint "
William; moreover, it was not till 14 March, 1148, that
Roger de Pont 1'Eveque became Archdeacon of Canterbury
on the promotion of one William to be Bishop of Rochester.
Now the anonymous author is not supported by any other
of Becket's biographers in the statement that the Provostry
conferred on Becket had been held by Roger. They all, —
William of Canterbury, John of Salisbury, FitzStephen, and
Edward Grim, — mention Roger's holding the archdeaconry,
but none of them mention his holding the Provostry, nor do
any but Grim mention its being conferred on Becket. He
* Materials for the Life of Thomas a Becket, iv. pp. 10-11. Rolls series.
No. 67. Ea tempestate .... Eboracensi sede vacante, Theobaldus .... sategit
qualiter archidiaconum suum Rogerium .... eidem sedi preficeret, quatinus per
hoc et dignitati ecclesie Cantuariensis et honor! suo et in clerico suo prospiceret et
Thomas ad majora viam aperiret .... Memorato Rogerio .... in Eboracensi
sede .... consecrato, absque mora archidiaconatum Cantuariensis ecclesise et
praeposituram Beverlaci, quae (sic) Rogerius obtinuerat. cum aliis ecclesiis
pluribus Thomae assignavit.
PROVOST THOMAS A BECKET, 1154-63.
being not a monk but a secular clerk and a Cambridge man
(though probably there was not then a University there),
may have taken more interest in the Provostry. But after
saying that Eoger held the archdeaconry, in order to succeed
to which Becket was ordained deacon, he goes on, " and with-
out delay he (Theobald) also obtained for his archdeacon the
Provostry of Beverley, heaping on him also manifold churches
and other revenues." He at least did not suppose that Eoger
was Provost.
Still it is not impossible. If Provost Thurstan died in
1153, Eoger may have obtained the Provostrj7 and held it
for a year till his consecration on 10 October, 1154. But
if it was at once bestowed on Becket it must have been so
bestowed by Eoger himself, the person whom the biographers,
with after events before their eyes, represent as his jealous
rival and personal enemy. For it was to him as Archbishop
of York, not to the Archbishop of Canterbury or to the Crown,
that the patronage belonged, if, as seems to be the case, the
doctrine that the presentation to benefices vacated by pro-
motion to a bishopric belonged to the Crown had not then
been invented. If it had been invented, it is improbable
that Becket was appointed before Henry II/s reign, as King
Stephen died on 25 October, and Henry II. was not crowned
and did not date his reign till 19 December following. In
fine we must refuse to believe in any Provost Eobert at this
epoch at all, and can only give a very hesitating and pro-
blematical possibility rather than probability to the Provostry
of Archbishop Eoger.
As Becket became Chancellor on Henry II.'s accession
and followed the King in his frequent visits abroad, it is
highly improbable that he ever saw Beverley ; though he
apparently held the- Provostry till he became archbishop,
27 May, 1162. He was also, according to Simon Eussell, a
canon of Beverley, holding the prebend of St. Michael,
attached to which was a chapel of St. Thomas the Apostle ;
which, by a curious repetition of the process by which the
honours of the Minster itself were popularly transferred from
S. John the Evangelist to S. John of Beverley, came after
the Translation of Becket in 1220, "to be called and es-
PROVOST GEOFFREY, 1163-77.
teemed as a perpetual memorial in honour of S. Thomas the
martyr and confessor."
Thore is considerable uncertainty as to the successor to
Becket. Simon Russell (p. 335) cites " another Robert " and
then Geoffrey, both "in the time of King Henry II. and
Archbishop Roger." Geoffrey has been identified with the
Archbishop of York of that name, one of Henry II/s sons,
usually, but it is now* said erroneously, attributed to Fair
Rosamond. The identification of Provost Geoffrey with Arch-
bishop Geoffrey is almost certainly wrong, and the order of
these two Provosts must be transposed, unless there were two
Roberts and two Geoffreys, both Provosts, succeeding each
other. The dates are really conclusive against Geoffrey the
Archbishop being also Provost. For in 1173, when he was
made Bishop of Lincoln, he had, according to Giraldus
Cambrensis, barely completed his fourth lustre ; and the
preponderance of authority makes him still younger, bringing
the date of his birth to 1157 or 1158;t and though he had
been Archdeacon of Lincoln before being made Bishop,
even Henry II. could hardly have put in a boy of four or
five years old in succession to his Chancellor as Provost.
But there is positive evidence that a Provost Geoffrey
existed while the other Geoffrey still held the bishoprick of
Lincoln, which was incompatible with the Provostry. Under
the year 1176 the writer of the chronicles which go under
the name of Abbot Benedict J records § how one Adam, a
clerk of Roger, Archbishop of York, was vice-chancellor to
the young King Henry "in place of Geoffrey (Gaufridus),
Provost of Beverley, for whose use the Archbishop had
bought the chancellorship of England for 11,000 marks."
On 6 October, 1175, a Geoffrey, first of three persons de-
scribed as King's chaplains, witnessed a treaty of Henry II.
with Roderick, King of Connaught.|| In 1177, "about
Michaelmas, on Tuesday, 27 Sept. (5 Kal. Oct. feria tertia),
* Dictionary of National Biography.
f Foss's Judges, ii. 293.
J According to Bishop Stubbs, his editor, Benedict was merely an Abbot of
Peterborough who had the chronicle transcribed ; and the real writer was an
Exchequer official, perhaps the Treasurer Richard FitzNigel himself.
§ Ckron. Ucnedicti Abbatis, Rolls series, i. 122. || Ibid. i. 103.
CHANCELLOR TO YOUNG KING HENRY. XV
while Geoffrey, Provost of the church of S. John of Beverley,
nephew of Roger, Archbishop of York, and chancellor of
King Henry, son of King Henry, ploughed the seas between
England and Normandy a storm struck, broke, and sank the
vessel. There were drowned the aforesaid Chancellor Geoffrey
and Eobertus Magnus, Schoolmaster of York" — the Chancellor
and the Grammar Schoolmaster were then still one and the
same — " a man of character wise and prudent, and many
others clerks and laymen to the number of 300." Ralph
" de Diceto," Dean of S. Paul's,* gives the date as actually
Michaelmas Day, 3 Kal. Oct., while Robert of Torignyt says
that about Midsummer Day many ships, " among them one
which carried Geoffrey, Provost of Beverley, nephew of
Roger, Archbishop of York, chancellor of the young King,
and many other nobles, perished at St. Valery. Many other
ships, nearly 30 or more, carrying wine from Poictou also
perished." Ralph de Diceto, by the way, apparently followed
the so-called Benedict, as he says under the year 1176,
" Geoffrey, Provost of Beverley, Archdeacon of York, was
made chancellor of the young King for 11,000 marks of
silver ; but what amount of money by tale (i.e. coin) is meant
by eleven thousand is not perhaps wholly a mystery to some,"
a very mysterious remark ; from which it would appear that
it was not the chancellorship of England, but only of the
young King, which had been bought for him.
The date of Geoffrey's appointment as chancellor of the
young King could not have been earlier than 1174, for
Richard Barre was his first chancellor, and resigned on the
rebellion. " G. Provost of Beverley, chancellor of King
Henry my son," witnesses next after Roger, Archbishop
of York, a deed of Henry II. confirming grants of Bernard
de Balliol to Rievaulx Abbey. J Galf ridus, Provost of
Beverley, witnesses next after R. de Butvillain, Dean of
York, a charter of Archbishop Roger appropriating Bingley
and Foston churches to Drax Priory. § Mr. Robert Magnus
is the next witness, then J. Fletaldi, W. Tillemyr, and
Jeremiah, canon of York.
* Rolls series, i. 422. f Chronicles, Stephen to Henry III., Roll series, iv. 275.
t Kievaulx Chartulary.
§ Dodsworth MS. xxxi. f. 24 b, from Drax Coucher, vol. ii
PROVOST ROBERT, 1177-1201.
The one act which brings this Geoffrey into connection
with Beverley itself is a grant by him as Provost, preserved
by Simon Russell (p. 328), "to all his friends and tenants
of S. John present and future. Know that I with the con-
sent of the lord Roger Archbishop of York and the assent
of my chapter have granted and given to Ralph of Hampton
(Hantona) nephew of Canon Simon;, the lands which the said
Simon held of S. John and by the same service, viz. in
Norwood a croft for 6d. a year, in the Moor a toft for 6d.,
and in Howald six oxgangs of land for 10s. a year payable
to the Provost of S. John, in fee and inheritance to Ralph
and his heirs for use to hold as freely as other feoffees of S.
John hold. These being witnesses Osbert, Simon, William
Moryn, Peter." The names of the canons give no clue to
the date.
In the absence of further evidence we must assume that
this Geoffrey, being nephew of Archbishop Roger, had
succeeded Thomas a Becket as Provost and held the office
till his tragic death in 1177.
Whether a Robert had preceded Geoffrey or not, it is cer-
tain that a Robert succeeded Geoffrey. For in the Pipe Roll
of 1184-5 (31 Henry II.) we find " Ralph the Archdeacon
and Robert Provost of Beverley " paying the large sum of
£366 13s. 4d.,^.e. 500 marks, to be in the keeping, custody, and
protection of the King as his demesne (dominici) clerks." The
same pair agreed to pay £55 for the same purpose to Richard I.
in 1189, and actually paid £50.* In 1195 under a Papal
Bull of Celestine III., 8 June of that year,f the Papal
delegates, making a monstrous decree against Archbishop
Geoffrey in the course of his long struggle with the Dean
and Canons, among other things condemned the Archbishop
to pay "40 marks and 9 shillings and 11s. 8d. for things
taken away from the prebend of Sherburn and other pos-
sessions of Robert, Provost of Beverley, and 24 marks for
costs." In a deed relating to Guisboro' Priory,! in execu-
* Pipe Roll, Richard I., p. 78, Record Commission 1835.
f Historians of the Church of York, iii. 103, Rolls series,
t Guisboro1 CJiartulary, Surtees Society, ii. 288. He witnessed another deed
of the same date. Ibid. ii. 126.
PROVOST SIMON, 1202-4. xvii
tion of another Bull of 25 July, 1196, by the Dean of York,
Kobert Provost of Beverley heads the witnesses. In 1201 *
" Kobert the Provost of Beverley church died ; which Pro-
vostry Geoffrey, Archbishop of York, gave to Morgan his
brother, son of King Henry, as was said, in spite of an
appeal of Simon, Dean of York, who said that the Provostry
had been given to him by the Archbishop during Provost
Robert's life/' The allegation is not very likely, seeing that
Simon of Apulia, an Italian adventurer, was, as Stubbst
says, " bitterest, most ungrateful, most unscrupulous of his
(Archbishop Geoffrey's) foes."
This passage induces complications as to the two next
.Provosts. Simon Russell's list (p. 305) places next Simon
" in the times of King Richard the first after the Conquest
and partly of King John, and of Archbishops Roger and
Geoffrey/' and next to him Fulk Basset, while five places
lower down he places Morgan. Poulson following Dug-
dale identifies Simon with Simon of Apulia, Dean of York,
and afterwards Bishop of Exeter, and dates him 1196 to
1213. The dates of Provost Robert already given prove
.this date to be certainly wrong. But the odd thing is that
Morgan, though said to be appointed in 1201, does not occur
as Provost till 1212 and continues till 1217; while a Simon
several times appears as Provost in 1203-4 who was quite
certainly not Simon of Apulia. Unluckily Hoveden's
Chronicle .breaks off almost immediately after the passage
above quoted. But it seems probable that in consequence of
the appeal of Simon of Apulia, neither Morgan nor he got
the Provostry at that time, but that after remaining vacant
perhaps two years it was given to Simon of Wells, or, as Foss
and others call him, Fitzrobert. At all events, Simon Fitz-
robert, who during the first and second years of King John's
reign, from September, 1199, to 2 June, 1200, signs the
King's charters as "given by the hands of Simon Arch-
deacon of Wells and John of Gray," in March, 1203, and
onwards, signs alone tc given by the hand of Simon Provost
of Beverley." John Gray had been made Bishop of Norwich
* Horeden's Chronicle, iv. 174, Rolls series.
f Historical Introductions of W. Stubbs, ed. Arthur Hassall, p. 829.
XVlll
PROVOST SIMON, 1202-4.
in 1202. The Charter Rolls for 3 and 4 John are lost, so
that it is not clear when Simon of Wells became Provost of
Beverley.* He was not Chancellor or Keeper of the Great
Seal, as Hubert Walter, the A'rchbishop of Canterbury,
was Chancellor till his death, 24 June, 1206;f but. he was
an officer of the Exchequer, receiving fines, and being keeper
of the Fleet prison and the Palace of Westminster, and
obtaining a grant of Faversham church. J He received
7 Feb., 120-£,§ lands in Stawell, Somerset, when he is
described as " Simoni filio Roberti, Archidiacono Wellensi."
These lands had escheated to the Crown by the felony of
Alice the wife of the late holder of the lands Robert de
Wattelai, whom she had killed, for which she had been burnt.
On 22 February he received lands in the manor of Wellburn
which had escheated for the same reason. Foss conjectures
that this Robert was Simon's father, and that the grant was
merely a restoration to Simon of lands he would otherwise
have inherited, if they had not been forfeited by the father's
murder. On 9 April, 5 John 1204, Simon is described as
"elect of Chichester," and in June of the same year, on
being consecrated, he ceases signing the King's charters.
The Dictionary of National Biography makes him Bishop in
1201, possibly through a misprint, certainly through a
mistake. He died bishop between January, 1207, when he
had letters of protection during his absence from England,
and Sept. 11, when a patent mentions the bishopric as
vacant. II
Even then Morgan did not succeed. We have to bring
up one Alan, whom Simon Russell and his followers make
13th and Torre 17th Provost, and who is attributed by
Poulson and by Dugdale in what must have been a sheer
guess, to the year 1251.
In point of fact the only dated document in which Alan
appears is as a witness to a deed of Archbishop Geoffrey,
5 July, 12 05. If He occurs also as Provost at the head of a
* Foss's Judges, ii. 12, 69. •(• Foss, ii. pp. 11, 13
J Rot. Pat. 3 John. § Rot. Chart. John, 86-8. || Rot. Pat. 9 John, 75.
^f P. 256 in the forthcoming edition for the Surtees Society of Giffard's Register
by Mr! W. Brown.
PROVOST ALAN, 1204-12.
list of witnesses of a grant to a chapel of S. John the
Baptist in Asmunderby, near Ripon,"* the next witnesses
being Mr. William of Gilling and William of Orleans, canons
of Eipon. This deed is undated. But in another Ripon deed,
the foundation of a chapel in Northrigt by Roger of Newby,
the witnesses are " canons of the same church, viz. William
of Gilling, Alan, chaplain of lord G-. of York," and two
others named. Another deed relating to the same Roger
of Newby witnessed by the same witnesses J contained a
grant to Ripon Minster (t and particularly (nominatim) to
the prebend of Alan canon of the same, who enclosed it,
and whose parishioner I specially am, all that he has en-
closed of my hereditary fee by Skelton ditch." Among the
chaplains who also witness the deed are "Gillebert cousin
(cognato) of Canon Alan," and among the deacons § is Hugh
nephew (nepote) of Canon Alan. In another deed (Ibid.,
p. 203) Nicholas, nephew (nepote) of Canon Alan is men-
tioned. We can hardly fail to identify this Canon Alan,
clerk of Geoffrey the Archbishop of York, with the Provost
of Beverley ; and we may probably infer from the number
of his relations witnessing Ripon deeds that he was himself
a native of Ripon or the immediate neighbourhood. His
elevation to the Provostry between the dates of the two deeds
above quoted would take him from the second place below
William of Gilling, which he occupied in the first deed, and
give him precedence in the first place above Gilling. This
fixes the date of the undated Ripon grant to the chapel of
S. John to between 1205 and 1212.
A deed is quoted by Simon Russell (p. 336) from a lost
chartulary of the Provostry, as being made in " the time of
Alan," but he does not give date or witnesses. It was a
grant by one Thomas Hoston "to God and the Provostry
of S. John of Beverley" of an oxgang (bovatam) of land in
Cranswick with a toft which Richard son of Edward held.
Alan's Provostry then may be provisionally dated 1204 to
1212. By a curious and unexplained error the next Provost,
* Memorials of Ripon, Surt. Soc. i. 207.
t Ibid. p. 99. t Ibid. p. 100-1
§ For this Canon Fowler here and elsewhere prints diaconibus, an impossible
form for the right one diaconis.
XX PROVOST MORGAN, 1212-17.
Morgan, was transplanted by Simon Kussell from 8th to 14th,
from 1215 to 1265, Poulson of course following suit, while
Mr. Baildon, in the true spirit of the harmonizing com-
mentator, makes two Morgans, the real one in 1212, and
another in 1265. The mistake was the more curious as
Morgan is known as another of Henry II.'s ' ' by-blows,"
credited to the wife of Sir Ralph Blewit, and is said to have
been refused consecration as Bishop of Durham on that
account. So to transfer him from 1212 to 1265 is to transfer
him from his own to an impossible generation of his grand-
sons. The Close Rolls of King John, his half-brother, record
his efforts to get Morgan, Provost of Beverley, elected
Bishop of Durham in 1215,* while on 7 May, 1216, King
John granted a prebend to the Archdeacon of Poitou "if
Morgan, Provost of Beverley, be promoted to a bishopric."
Morgan never was so promoted ; but took the vows as a
crusader, and died intestate before he could set out. When
sick he was carried to the Cistercian Abbey of Fountains, of
which he was an " oblate." His benefices, as belonging to a
crusader, were granted by the Pope to the Master of the
Temple in England for the prosecution of the crusade. But
when it was found that Morgan had resigned all his
benefices before his death, Pope Honorius III. in a letter t
to Archbishop Walter Gray in November, 1217, rescinded
the grant, and a mandate was sent the same day J
(8 Id. Nov.) to the Master of the Temple ordering him
to pay the proceeds of the benefices in question to the
persons collated to them. A piece of a deed by Provost
Morgan collating to Patrington Church, the chief prefer-
ment in the Provostry, is given in the Provost's Book.§ As
it is undated, and gives no witnesses nor the name of the
person collated, it sheds no new light on his date. The
first known reference to Morgan as Provost is in the year
1212.|| The date is apparently taken from the Yorkshire Feet
of Fines in the 14th year of King John at Westminster " from
Michaelmas Day to a month after," when Morgan, Provost
of Beverley by his attorney Matthew of Ripon, recovered
* Pp. 190b and 204. 16 John. J Calendar Papal Letters under date,
f Gray's Register. Snrtees Soc., § f. 72b., p. 3?8 of this vol.
No. r>6, p. 130. || Surtees Society, No. 94, p. 171.
PROVOSTS WILLIAM ; PETER OF SHERBURN. XXI
against Robert Constable the advowson of Halsham in the
East Riding, which had been given by his uncle, another
Robert Constable, "to God and the church of S. John and
the Provost in pure and perpetual alms." The Provost and
canons in return kindly received Robert Constable and his
heirs to the benefits of all prayers made in the Minster for ever.
The two next Provosts have been omitted altogether
by Simon Russell and also by Poulson. They owe their
resurrection in history to the late Chancellor Raine, who
disinterred them in digging into Archbishop Gray's Register.
These two resuscitated dignitaries are Provost William and
Provost Peter of Sherburn. Of William nothing is known
but the simple Christian name. The fact of his provostship
appears in an undated deed at Durham, by which Arch-
bishop Gray confirmed Mr. Walter Scot in the church of
Skipwith (Scipewic), to which he had been instituted by the
Dean of York during the vacancy of the see of Durham.*
The vacancy of Durham was between the death of Philip of
Poitiers in 1208 and his successor Richard of Marsh 1217.
William, Provost of Beverley, also witnessed another deed of
the Archbishop's containing a grant to Nostell Priory in c.
1217.f
Peter of Sherburn, or Shirburn as it is more commonly
spelt, was from the Yorkshire Sherburn, not the Durham
Sherburn, still less the Hants or Dorset Sherborne. He was
a landholder in Sherburn and Canon of York, as which he
first appears, witnessing the above-mentioned deed of Arch-
bishop Gray in c. 1217, and signing next to William, Pro-
vost of Beverley. In the same Register he appears as
" Magister " Peter of Sherburn as holding land in Sherburn
under the Archbishop, J and since 1217 holder of a " portion"
in the church of Sherburn and of tithes in its adjacent
villages, which were assigned as endowment of two new
prebends (Wistow and Cawood) constituted in York Minster. §
In 1216 Magister P. de Sireburn witnessed, next to H.
Treasurer of York and before three other Canons of York, a
composition between Ripon Minster and Fountains Abbey,
* Gray's Reg. p. 6 n. t H>M- P- 129.
J Ibid. pp. 186-7 n. § Ibid. p. 133.
VOL. II. C
XX11
PROVOST FULK BASSET 1221-39.
freeing from tithe certain lands of the abbey .* Then on
1 March 121|- we find Mr. Peter de Shireburn, Provost of
Beverley,f witnessing next after the Archdeacon of York,
a grant by Fountains Abbey of the advowson of Kirkby
Ouseburne to the Archbishop, which was by him given to
the Precentorship of York; and witnessing another deed
of about the same date settling a dispute between the Arch-
bishop and Fountains Abbey.J In or about 1219 he is
described as Official of the Archbishop in an inquisition
relating to Guisboro' Priory. § He must not be confused with
Peter of Shirburn, Sacrist in 1272 (p. 294).
Fulk Basset, who comes next, was a person who played
a great part afterwards as Bishop of London in the con-
troversy of the barons with Henry III. But with this we
are not concerned. As Provost of Beverley he must be
deposed from the place of ninth to that of twelfth Provost.
He first appears as such in a deed of 15 June, 1226, when
Archbishop Gray confirmed a grant of a canonry in the
Bedern of Beverley to Mr. S., viz. Stephen, the goldsmith
made by F. Basset, Provost of Beverley. || This brings him
into the Provostry eleven years earlier than the Dictionary of
National Biography, or Poulson, or other authorities, have
hitherto allowed him. The corrody in question was no doubt
that of the office of goldsmith to the Minster, which had
become, if not a sinecure, at least a non-resident office, and
was abolished by Archbishop ArundeFs Statutes in 1391
(p. 275). It is not easy to see why the grant required the
Archbishop's confirmation ; unless perhaps Fulk 'Basset was
then a minor or not in orders, or under some other incapacity.
Stephen the goldsmith was seven years later given a pension
of ten marks a year for life by the Archbishop till he could
provide him with a benefice ; which probably took the
shape of a canonry in York Minster, as a Canon Stephen in
1239 witnesses one of the Archbishop's grants. IT Already
on 25 Feb., 1226, Basset was parson of Howden (Howedene),
one of the richest livings in Yorkshire, afterwards cut
* Mem. Ripon, i. 248. f Gray's Reg. p. 132. % Gray's Reg. p. 279.
§ Guisboro' Chartulary, ii. 186. Surtees Society, No. 89.
II Gray's Reg. p. 223. fl 2Md. p 252 n.
BASSET AND THE CANONS.
up into five prebends for five canons and their vicars. On
1 Nov., 1227,* lie was rich enough to be the Archbishop's
surety for 100 marks, which the Archbishop had contracted
to pay to Eustachia de Pinkeni, widow o{ Thomas of Arden,
for the right to marry any of his nieces to her heir, if a boy,
or any of his nephews if the heir was a girl — a rather striking
illustration that the marriage market was then something
more than a metaphor or a gibe. Besides his ecclesiastical
appointments, Fulk was also heir presumptive to the lordship
of Wycomb and other lands of Alan Basset his father, a
great-grandson of the famous Justiciar of Henry I., who
once hung forty-four robbers at one assize.
It is odd, therefore, that Fulk's substantial acts as Provost
of Beverley bear a somewhat- mean and grasping look. He
seems to have carried on war against the canons of Beverley
for years. He was probably Provost when by a Papal man-
date of 29 March, 1222, the Dean, Sub-dean, and Chancellor
of Lincoln were directed to insist on the " chaplains and
other clerks " dining in their common hall, the Bedern, as they
ought, and then giving the remainder to the poor. It was
alleged that " when they meet to dine they cause their portions
to be taken where they please, defrauding the poor and con-
verting the profit made to unlawful uses," On 26 Feb., 1224, a
similar mandate came from the Pope to the same trio of Lincoln
dignitaries, except that the Archdeacon was substituted for
the Chancellor, to warn and induce the chaplains and other
clerks to abandon the evil custom of taking their meals away
from the common table and defrauding the poor. In a later
letter of Gregory IX., 15 April, 1237, to Archbishop Gray,|
the Pope says that Basset as Provost complained <e that the
style of living which he had to afford the canons, chaplains,
clerks, and officers of Beverley in the refectory of the
Bedern, commonly called corrodies," had been settled
formerly in times "when the necessaries of the life of man
were at a less price," and so through the superfluity of wealth
an immoderate quantity and number of courses (ferculorum)
* Ibid. p. 227.
f Reg. p. 175, from Add. MS. 15354, 6. A very meagre note of the original
of this appears in the Calendar of Papal Letters.
c2
BASSET AND THE CANONS.
had been granted. " Now everything is much dearer than
usual, to say nothing of sons of iniquity who carry off the
goods of the church and attack its rights and liberties" —
there was no doubt the usual struggle going on as to the
thraves (i. xcviii.). — " Hence arises the absurdity that while
the old ordinance " (no doubt that printed, p. 249) " is pre-
served, and as much is given in flesh and fish to a single one
as would serve him and many more, the goods of the Pro-
vostry are almost entirely spent in superfluity of food and
unlicensed drinks, while the rights and liberties of the
church are lost through lack of defence (as the Provost can-
not defend them having nothing left to do so, and nobody
else can), and so the office of Provost is a losing business,
and he, though he is supposed to be head, is in straits while
the rest have a superfluity. Moreover, the remains of the
food, which the canons and others ought to give to the poor,
are to their disgrace sold (in this paying little heed to their
own salvation), and converted to other low purposes (pravos
usus)" After such an appeal the Pope was bound to direct,
as he did, the Archbishop to go to Beverley, inquire into the
circumstances, and moderate the corrodies " according to the
exigencies of God [has Canon Eaine printed Deum for Dei?]
and of the revenues." What happened we do not know,
but another Papal letter dated 17 April in the next year,
1235, allowed the Pope's "beloved son Fulk" to hold the
rectory of Howden in plurality with any dignity, meaning no
doubt the Provostry, in spite of the constitution of the recent
General Council.
Probably this dispensation was the real object of Basset's
piteous complaint about his poverty and the extravagance of
the Bedern diet; so we may hope that the canons, the school-
master, and the rest escaped having their commons sconced
for the benefit of this sprig of nobility, as he is called. Simon
Kussell indeed says that " in his time these corrodies in the
Bedern were abated" (moderata) • but he says the same of
Provost Robert, and the remark probably only means that he
had found the Papal Bull among the archives of the Pro-
vostry. It would be interesting to know if it were carried
out, and how.
In October, 1239, Basset was elected Dean of York, in which
PROVOST WILLIAM OF YORK, 1239-44. XXV
capacity on 22 April, 1241,* he witnessed the gift of Bishop-
thorpe, still the Archbishops' residence, to the see of York. In
the same year he succeeded to the family peerage and estates
at Wycomb, on the death of his brother ; and in December
was elected Bishop of London, though he did not succeed in
getting consecrated till 1244. As Bishop, one of his earliest
acts 21 June, 1244, was to witness the grant of " York House,"
the Archbishop's town house in Westminster, now Whitehall,
which he had bought from the famous Hubert of Burgh,
Justiciary of England, Earl of Kent, who sold it to furnish
the funds for the crusade on which he had vowed to go.
This last-mentioned deed was also witnessed by cc William
of York, Provost of Beverley," his immediate successor in
that office, and John Mansel, whom Poulson oddly dubs a
knight, then Chancellor of S. Paul's, also a future Provost.
From 1244 to his death by the plague in 1259 ex-Provost
Fulk's doings are part of the history of England, and do not
concern the historian of Beverley Minster.
It is most probable that Basset resigned the Provostship
on becoming Dean of York. For in 1240 (24 Henry III.)
William of York, then at the head of the northern contingent
of a general circuit of judges,t which Matthew Paris de-
scribes as a mere raid for fees and plunder, is mentioned
as Provost of Beverley. He was then no novice in the law,
as he had served as a justice itinerant in 1226,| and from
1234 presided in one of the two branches of the Court of
Common Pleas. He was amply beneficed : rector of Casington ;
canon of York,§ of S. Paul's, || and of Wells.! In 1242, with
the A.rchbishop of York and William Cantilupe, he was
guardian of the kingdom. On 7 or 14 July (the authorities
differ), 1246, he was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury, and
died 31 January, 1256.
William of York must, however, have resigned the Pro-
vostry before his consecration as Bishop, since in 1244
another William, not hitherto reckoned among the Provosts
of Beverley, appears in that capacity. This was William of
* Gray's Reg. p. 191. t Foss, ii. 156.
I Rot. Claus. 9 Henry III., 119. § 10 Dec. 1230, Gray's Reg. p. 51.
i| Newcourt, i. 173. ^| Reg. i. pp. 76-77.
PROVOST WILLIAM OF CANTILUPE, 1244-7.
Cantilupe (de Cantilupo), junior, probably the eldest son of
the Chief Justice of that name, who, on his father's petition,
was on 11 April, 1231, allowed to take the oath of fealty for
lands of his father, and did a good deal of judicial business
for the King. He is called Steward of the Lord King when
witnessing after the Justices in Eyre and others a grant to
Guisboro' Priory circa 1239.* His only known appearance as
Provost of Beverley is in a charter of 14 July, 1244, f when he
signed as Provost of Beverley next after William of Ferrars,
Earl of Derby, and R. de Qwincey (sic), Earl of Winchester,
a grant by the Crown to one Lambert de Milton of a market
in ' ' Flet " and free warren in all his lands. The interpolation
of his Provostry explains the otherwise inexplicable date of
a deed given in Gray's Register J on 7 Oct., 1247, by which
one John of the Bedern was instituted to Hemsworth
(Himelesworth, the heavenly farm), on the presentation of
Dominus Willelmus, Provost of Beverley, as guardian of the
lands and heir of William of Wanrevill. What I had supposed
to be a belated institution on a presentation by William of
York before he became bishop, is now more simply explained
by the find of this new Provost.
The next Provost, John Mansel, was the most famous
specimen in his day of the type of ecclesiastic who was civil
servant, lawyer, statesman, diplomatist, and soldier into the
bargain. He was brought up at court. § The earliest notice
of him yet discovered is his appointment, 5 July, 1234, to
reside at the Exchequer of receipt and have the custody of
one roll. || The office thus conferred is supposed to be that
of Chancellor of the Exchequer, an officer said to be first
mentioned under that title fourteen years later. In 1238
he was sent on a mission to Italy. From 1241 onwards
church preferments were showered on him. His first canonry
seems to have been at Lincoln, If where his appointment was
opposed by Bishop Grosseteste, and he thought it better to
resign the nomination and be consoled with Howden rectory
* Guuloro1 Chartulary, ii. 199. | Harl. Charters, 58, J. 1-3.
t p. 102. § Eymer's Fcedera, i. 414.
|| Foss's Judges, ii. 392 ; from Madox, Exchequer, ii. 51.
f Diet. Nat. Biog.
PROVOST JOHN MANSEL, 1247-69.
and Maidstone, both, so rich as to be subsequently carved
into colleges. Next year saw him on active service in France,
unhorsing in battle the Seneschal of the Count of Boulogne
— a rich prize. The following year he was severely wounded
at the siege of Varines. On 3 June, 1243, as a canon of
Wells, he was chosen as that Chapter's representative to
confer with the King on the election of Koger, Precentor of
Salisbury, to the bishopric of Wells. On 24 May, 1243,
he was Chancellor of S. Paul's Cathedral. He was probably
a canon of York, though signing under the description of
Chancellor of S. Paul's, when witnessing the grant of York
House to the see of York (p. xviii.). On 13 December,
1246, he was made Dean of Wimborne Minster, Dorset. In
1247 he is said by Foss to have been Provost of Beverley.
The authority is not given, but is probably the Flores
Historiarum, now printed in the Rolls series, which under
date 1247 says, " At this time Sir J. Mansel, Chancellor of
S. Paul's, London, at the King's order and instant petition
.... took the keepership of the King's Seal in the place of
Chancellor (cancellarii vices acturus et officium). Moreover
the Provostry of Beverley was conferred on the said John by
the Archbishop of York. Though the King was annoyed
that this was not given to his brother on his mother's side,
Sir Ethelmar, yet as he had found the said John faithful and
necessary in supporting his burdens, the King would not allow
him to suffer loss or damage, or be any way deprived of the
dignity bestowed on him." As Sir Ethelmar or Aymer de
Valence soon after became Bishop of Winchester he had not
much to complain of. Mansel's Provostry was no doubt like
that of Thomas a Becket of the absentee order. The first
recorded description of him as Provost is when he witnessed
at Woodstock a recital and confirmation of a grant of King
John to Robert Earl of Leicester, 21 August, 1248,* when he
was keeper of the Great Seal.f His latest known signature
in that capacity is in a charter of the King dated at West-
minster, 2 May, 47 Henry III., i.e. 1263.J This is the only
document which brings him into any connection with
* Duchy of Lancaster Great Cowcher, i. 424, n. 5. f Foss, ii. 393.
J This date is five years later than the last appearance in that capacity credited
to him in the Dictionary of National Biography.
xxviii PROVOST JOHN HANSEL'S DEATH.
Beverley. Nor is this surprising. For in the interim he was
as King's Secretary sent in 1253 on a mission to Gascony, to
treat for the marriage of Eleanor of Castile to Edward I., at
which he assisted at Burgos in the following year. In 1246
and several times afterwards he was Keeper of the Great
Seal, but never called Chancellor, probably because he was
not a bishop, a preferment he is said to have several times
refused. In 1257 as ambassador he negotiated the election of
Richard of Cornwall as King of the Romans. In 1258 he
acted on a commission in the City of London, dismissing and
punishing aldermen and councillors. In the same year he was
Treasurer of York Minster. In 1261 he was dismissed from
the Keepership by the Barons' influence, but restored next
year. In 1263 he had to fly from Simon de Montfort: he was a
party to the Mise of Amiens, and died, it is said,* in poverty
and misery in France, 20 Jan., 1265. The Mores Historiarum
only says, under 1264, "In those days J. Hansel, a mighty
occupier of benefices, attained the goal of life beyond sea."
As he was named as an executor in Henry III.'s will, June,
1269, this must be a mistake.t His gorgeous entertainments to
royalty provoked the attacks of the monkish chroniclers ;
he is much abused by Matthew Paris, who loses no opportunity
of abusing the secular clergy, of whom he was jealous, and as
Mansel was successful in a lawsuit against S. Alban's Abbey,
to which that worthy monk belonged, he was at once, ipso
facto, stamped as a son of iniquity. His foundation of a
Priory of Austin Canons at Basington, Kent, in 1253, would
not commend him to the member of a rival order. Hume
has a preposterous tale of his holding 700 benefices. There
is no evidence that he held more than Becket or William of
Wykeham or Wolsey or other statesmen-clerics.
John Chesull,{ the next Provost, has been misplaced
by all the historians of Beverley as next but one before
Mansel, whereas he was next after him. An extant deed
printed in this volume (p. 295) gives his one certain con-
nection with the Minster, though revealing by its date,
* Diet. Nat. Biog. f Foss, ii. 396.
J Perhaps he came from Cheeshill in the Bishop's soke at Winchester. That
place is supposed to be allied in meaning with the Chesil Beach at Portland, and
elsewhere.
PROVOST JOHN CHEESEHILL, 1269-74.
London, S. Nicholas Day (6 December), 1272, that the
Provost was as usual an absentee. It is addressed by John
of Chesull, Provost of Beverley, to all the sons of holy
mother Church, and states that in order to pay off the debts
on the Bedern, the canons, vicars, clerks, and others had
agreed that for the year beginning Michaelmas, 1272, they
would take a fixed portion in wheat and money for their
corrodies (corrediis). To prevent this being drawn into a
precedent, at the desire of the Archbishop, the Provost
granted that all were to revert to their former estate (ad
antiqui temporis statum suum) at Michaelmas, 1273, and take
their corrody in eatables and drinkables as of old, unless
another arrangement should be made meanwhile. This docu-
ment shows that the process by which the board and lodging
originally provided for the canons in the Bedern became
commuted for a money payment — a much mere convenient
arrangement for pluralist canons, who wished to be elsewhere
— was not yet completed, or a,t least was not yet recognised
as the normal arrangement. The vicars and other inferior
ministers always continued to live in the Bedern and be
boarded by the Provost accordingly.
Chesull, like his predecessors, was a lawyer and civil
servant, and beneficed for that reason. In 1264 he was
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in 1265 one of the cus-
todians, though not technically "Keeper"*" of the Great
Seal; in 1268 Dean of S. Paul's; on 30 October of that year
he became Keeper, and held the seals till 31 July, 1269;
on 6 Feb., 1270, he became Treasurer of England. f On
7 Dec., 1273, he was elected Bishop of London, and con-
secrated 29 April, 1274. He died 8 Feb., 1280, and was
buried in S. Paul's. J
Peter of Chester was the next Provost. He first appears
as Peter of Lascy,§ being an illegitimate || son of John of
Lascy or Lacey, lord of Pontefract, constable of Chester,
who became, in right of his wife, Earl of Lincoln. Peter,
like many " by-blows " of good family, took to the law and
* Foss, ii. 147. t FOBS, ii. 147. J Foss, ii. 296.
§ Whalley Abbey Coucher Book, i. 94. Cheetham Society.
|| Ibid. 280 ; cf. Whitaker's History of Whalley , 4th ed. 1872. i. 77-81.
XXX PROVOST PETER OF CHESTER, 1274-95.
the church. He was first and last rector of Whalley, Lanes.,
circa 1235, receiving the King's protection in respect of it
nearly 60 years later, 18 Oct., 1294. He probably assumed
the name of Chester, in the castle of which he was no doubt
born, on taking minor orders. He never was more than a
sub-deacon.* On 23 Dec., 1252, he is called kinsman of the
Earl of Lincoln, in a mandate by Pope Innocent IV. to the
Bishop of London to grant him dispensation to hold benefices
in plurality to the value of £100 a year. In 1262 he was
justice of assize at Lancaster.t In 1270, 54 Henry III., he
was a Justice itinerant for pleas of the Forest.J On 1 May,
1278, as Dominus Petrus de Cestreia he was the first witness
to his great-nephew Henry de Lacy's charter § to the burgesses
of Pontefract, being described as Provost of Beverley : his
first known appearance in that capacity, four years earlier
than hitherto allowed. ||
On 26 Nov., 1280,1T he appears as witness to a deed
enrolled in Chancery. Next year, 15 Oct., 1281, the Prior
of Pontefract acknowledged in Chancery at Winchester a
debt of 100 marks to Peter de Cestria, Provost of Beverley.**
He was made a Baron of the Exchequer in 1284.tt On 11 May,
1287,JJ he witnessed the enrolment of an agreement by the
King with Sir Matthew Fitz John for exchange of property in
Hampshire, to which the witnesses were John, Bishop of Ely,
Treasurer, Philip of Wilughby, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Peter de Cestria, Provost of Beverley, followed by three
Barons of the Exchequer and some Justices ; so that he was
probably senior puisne baron. He was also a canon of Lich-
field and of Hereford, and parson of East Harlesey (Arlesey),
Easington, and Slaidburn. On 5 March, 128f, he appears as
canon and prebendary of Bugthorpe in York Minster. §§ In a
French letter addressed to Sir Henry de Menyll, probably
bailiff of the Provostry, dated at London, 10 May, 1290, ||||
* Cal. Close Rolls, Edw. I. 1291, 15 Sept.
f Lancashire Fines, 1196-1307, i. 133, Lancashire and Cheshire Records,
vol. xxxix. J Foss, iii. 74.
§ Pontefract Borough Records. || Foss, iii. 74.
f Cal. Close llolls, Edward I., p. 103. ** Cal. Close Rolls, Edward I.
ft Foss, iii. 74. JJ Cal. Close Rolls, Edward I.
§§ Le Neve, iii. |||| Provosts' Book, f. 83.
INDULGENCE FOR NAVE OF MINSTER, 1290. XXXL
he forgave Sir Robert of Hylton all defaults in suit of court
in respect of Ottringham.
Preparations for the rebuilding of the nave of the Minster
began during the Provostry of Peter of Chester, Archbishop
Romanus, on 24 March, 1290 (i. 2), issuing what in later
times was called a Church Brief on its behalf. All abbots,
priors, colleges, archdeacons, officials, deans, and parish priests
were directed to admit the chapters' proctors when they came
to collect contributions, and to expound the busines to their
parishioners and subjects, and induce them to contribute. The
archbishop, in the names of S. Peter and S. Paul and " the
most holy confessor William," offered to all contributors an
indulgence of 40 days of the penance imposed on them for their
sins. This is the regular form of Indulgence for such contri-
butions. The famous Pardon for S. Peter's, Rome, which is
popularly supposed to have produced Luther's outburst and
the Reformation, did not substantially differ except that it was
a plenary or complete instead of only a 40 days' indulgence.
But it was not an indulgence or pardon for sins or license to
commit sins ad libitum for the future, as is popularly repre-
sented, but only a pardon for the penance imposed by the
church authorities for past sins; and it was limited in its
terms "to those truly contrite and confessing their sins."
Yenal proctors no doubt led an ignorant people to think, and
an ignorant people no doubt were ready to think, that the
pardon was a pardon for sins. But in itself the indulgence
was innocent enough. It remitted a physical penalty for a
fine paid to pious uses. We cannot wholly condemn a system
which has given us Beverley Minster and York Minster, Eton
College Chapel, and a host of other noble buildings.
When the nave of the Minster was rebuilt the shrine of
S. John was also made anew, and we have fortunately
the contract for it, preserved in the Letter Books of the Cor-
poration of London, an unexpected quarter, which testifies
to the importance of the work. The contract was dated
14 Sept. and enrolled in the Mayor's Court on Michaelmas
Day, 1292. It was made between the Chapter on the one
part and Roger of Faringdon (sic), goldsmith, servant (and
we can hardly doubt son or nephew) of William Farendon (sic),
goldsmith, citizen of London, of the other part. Roger was
XXxii CONTRACT FOR SILVER-GILT SHRINE
to make from silver and gold supplied by the Chapter, and
refined, if necessary, by Roger, a shrine (feretrum) 5J feet
long, 1J foot broad, and of proportionate (say 2^ feet)
height. It was to be " beautiful and fit with plates (platis)
and columns of mason's work and figures (imaginibus) of
cunning (subtilis) and beautiful (decori) work, the number
and size being at the Chapter's discretion, to be placed all over
the shrine, with canopies (tabernaculis) and pinnacles in
front and rear, and other devices appropriate for a shrine of
this sort and beauty, such as belongs to goldsmiths' work."
The Chapter had power to reject any figure or other orna-
ment and cause the goldsmith to remake it, without extra
charge. The goldsmith was to find quicksilver, coals, and
everything else necessary for the working of the material.
The price paid for the work was to be the same weight of
silver as the shrine and its images and ornaments weighed
before being gilt ; and Roger was to do no other work before
it was finished.
William of Farendon (sic) was surety for the work. He
was the alderman who gave his name to the City Ward of
Farringdon, now the two wards of Farringdon Within and
Without, then called the Ward of Ludgate and Newgate,
which he acquired from John son of Ralph le Fevre by deed
enrolled in 1281-2, and devised by his will in 1293 to Nicholas
of Faringdon or Farndon, who being son of the said John
le Fevre (probably = Orfevre) married William of Farndon's
daughter, Isabel, and took his name.* They were all gold-
smiths. So the Chapter of Beverley went to probably the
best firm of the day for their shrine.
Unfortunately we do not know whether this shrine was
completed by Roger of Farringdon, nor do we know what it
was like. It appears to have been at Beverley, but in an
unfinished state, when, on April, 1302 (i. 3), Archbishop
Corbridge issued a special indulgence in the same form as
that of Romanus twelve years before for the fabric.
" Desiring that the church of Beverley and the famous
shrine (capsula) in it for holding the relics of the most holy
* Calendar of Husting Wills, by Dr. R. R. Sharpe, pt. i. p. 112. Nicholas
in turn devised the aldermanry to John le Pulteneye by will 23 June, 1334. Ibid.
p. 398.
OF S. JOHN OF BEVERLEY, 1292. XXxiii
confessor John, now begun of sumptuous workmanship, but
for the completion of which the resources of the church do
not suffice/ ' he directs the clergy to give the Chapter's
collectors precedence over all others except those for York
Minster, and an indulgence of 40 days "to those who visit
or honour the church and shrine and stretch out helping
hands to the making or glorification of them/' In 1305
John the goldsmith appeared in Chapter and claimed
allowance of £10 14s. of silver delivered to him for making
the shrine, asserting that there had been waste to that
amount in the coin given him by the Chapter. On 21 June,
1308, Archbishop Greenfield having dedicated the high altar
of the Minster to S. John of Beverley, granted another
indulgence to those contributing to the fabric and the
greater estate of the shrine. As there are no more collec-
tions for the shrine, though plenty for the fabric, it may be
assumed that the shrine was then completed. It was no
doubt continually augmented by " jewels," as when the Lady
Margaret (i. 294) gave a golden gift it was at once fixed to
the shrine. The shrine was carried in procession through
the town during the Rogation days to the daughter churches,
when all the Trade Gilds of the town built wooden castles in
the streets through which the procession went carrying the
shrine, and having seen it pass sitting in their best liveries *
in the morning, on its return in the afternoon joined in and
rode after the shrine. When in the Minster it reposed
apparently on the broad platform above the reredos behind
the high altar, and a gorgeous and beautiful object it must
have been when shining in the summer sun which fell through
the south window of the east transept directly on the altar,
or gleaming in the gloom of a winter day under the light shed
by innumerable torches and candles.
At Ottringham, in South Holderness, some ten miles east
of Hull, one of the manors of the Provostry, Peter of Chester
left a memorial of himself in the shape of a chantry priest
under somewhat peculiar circumstances. Mr. Eichard of
Otringhamt was the grandson of one Sir Martin of that ilk,
* Beverley Town Documents, edited by me for the Selden Society, 1900,
vol. xiv. pp. Ivii.-lix. 99, 112, 115.
f Chronicon de Melsa, ii. 196 seq., Rolls Series.
PETER OF CHESTER'S CHANTRY AT OTTRINGHAM.
knight, who being a burgess of the then flourishing sea-
port of Hedon had made his fortune and thriven to thane
right and become a large landowner. He had three sons,
Richard, John, and Martin. The latter was a cleric, but
nevertheless had a son, Richard the canon. His two uncles
succeeded each other, but died childless, and the whole pro-
perty came to him. A childless man himself, the last of his
race, he determined to convert the manor house of Ottringham
into a chantry, wherein seven monks from Meaux Abbey, to
whom the estates were devised, were to pray for his soul for
ever for 100 marks a year. The Statute of Mortmain having
been passed a few years before, the license in mortmain of
the mesne lord, the Provost of Beverley, as well as that of
the king, was required to the grant. Peter of Chester no
doubt having, like most educated people of the age, an
objection to monks, would only consent if a secular priest
was substituted for one of the monks, to be presented by the
Provost of Beverley for the time being, and to pray for Pefcer
and his successors. To this the monks of Meaux, sorely
against their will apparently, as the tale is told at enormous
length in the Chronicle, consented. The chantry began on
S. Laurence Day, 1293, when the six monks and the chantry
priest, with a salary of 5 marks a year, moved into Ottring-
ham manor house. Before apparently the legal documents
were all completed Peter of Chester died, and the next
Provost, Aymo de Quarto, demanded as the price of his con-
sent to a confirmation of the chantry, that his name should
take precedence of all the Ottringhams who were to be prayed
for. To this high-handed imposition Eichard of Otringham,
who was still alive,*" was obliged to consent. In 1324 the
monks moved the oratory to the gate of Meaux Abbey, but
the chantry chaplain stayed at Ottringham, and his admission,
induction, and institution are recorded as one of the rights
or duties of the Provost in the Provost's Book in 1417
(p. 309).
When Archbishop Romanus in 1290 overhauled the consti-
* If he was the Richard of Ottringham who, 6 Nov., 1330, was admitted to
S. Stephen's prebend at Beverley (ii. 91, 94), he was still alive on 23 June, 1352.
Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries, xv. 117.
PETER OF CHESTER'S EXECUTORS. xxxv
tution of the church and endeavoured to make every one
reside, Provost Peter was not present, and his case was twice
reserved, first on 20 June (p. 163), and again on 8 Nov.
(p. 169). Whether it was that the Archbishop was afraid
to tackle so potent a personage, certain it is that while the
Precentor, Chancellor, and Sacrist were ordered into instant
and perpetual residence, saving the dispensing power of the
Archbishop, no such condition was imposed on the Provost.
In 1291 he obtained a mandate from the Pope to the Arch-
bishop to examine his case and grant dispensation for plurali-
ties acquired after the Council of Lyons.* The last thing
known of Peter of Chester was that on 18 Oct., 1294, he
was granted protection by the King's letters patent,t both
as Provost of Beverley and as parson of Rudby and Wh alley,
Lanes. Whether this was to defend him from further assaults
of the Archbishop, or for some* other reason, we are left
to guess. He was dead by 23 April, 1295,J when the Arch-
bishop ejected the canons from the Provostry, which they
claimed reverted to them on a vacancy, and took its adminis-
tration into his own hands, a proceeding which caused the
canons to obtain a commission of oyer and terminer to J. de
Lithgreyns and John de Insula, two of the King's judges.
lc The venerable father and lord, Sir Peter of Chester," is
credited by Simon Russell (p. 306) with having " acquired
several tenements, rents, and services to the said Provostry and
the Provosts of the same, and demised divers live and dead stock
(implementa), of goods and chattels (catalla apparently used
almost in the original sense of cattle) in all the manors of the
said Provostry." Poulson § glosses this into a new purchase.
In point of fact there is no evidence of anything of the kind.
The credit thus given to Peter of Chester is due to the fact
that his executors entered into a formal deed with the
succeeding Provost as to the division of the income and
the support of the Bedern, that is, of the vicars choral and
* Cal. Close Rolls, under date.
f Pat. 22 Edward I. m. 9 d. Cal. p. 118.
J Two dates are given for his death in History of Whalley, pp. 77 and
79, 18 Kal. Jan., 1294, i.e. 15 Dec., 1294, and SS. Fabian and Sebastian, i.e.
20 Jan., 1294. If this means 129| the last date is probably correct; but if it
means 1294, then the first date is more likely.
§ Beverlac, p. 650.
XXXvi PROVOST AYMO DE CARTO, 1295-1304.
all other inferior ministers of the church, and the corrodies
of the canons, between the estate of the outgoing and
that of the incoming Provost. The account day being
Michaelmas Day, and the Provost's goods being, as usual
in the case of a member of the church, placed under seques-
tration pending administration and account, the Bedern
would have starved in the meanwhile if some arrange-
ment had not been made by which the executors could at
once deal with the goods. We have not got the actual
agreement, but in Simon Russell's book a similar agreement
made between the executors of Provost Robert Rolleston, who
died 12 Jan., 1450, and his successor, John Bernyngham or
Barningham, is set out at length. This agreement refers to
and is modelled on that of Peter of Chester's executors. So
too in the first volume of this book, 10 July, 1306, the Chapter
authorized John of Risindon, their lawyer, proctor, assessor,
and general man of business, to negotiate with the executors
of Bobert of Abberwick, the then late Provost, and grant
them the administration of his goods in the Provostry
(t according to the tenor of a certain dividend (i.e division,
cf. prebendam = provision) between Sir Aymo, once the
Provost of Beverley, and the executors of Sir Peter of Chester
his predecessor." The stock which was left to Robert of
Abberwick on his accession and that which on his death was
left for the next Provost, Walter Reynolds, is set out at full
length (i. 122-4), with a statement of what was deficient and
had to be made up by the executors of the deceased Provost,
and a similar statement of what was delivered by Walter
Reynolds, on his vacating the Provostry by becoming Bishop
of Worcester, to his successor William of Melton. It is an
extremely valuable document for the history of prices of
live stock at that time. But the worth of its comparison with
the later agreement in John Barningham's time, in which
also the prices are set out, is vitiated by the stereotyped
conservatism so characteristic of the Middle Ages, which
when a thing had been once settled treated it as settled for
all time; for the prices set down in J451 are the same as
those in 1306. Hence it is certain that the prices of 1306
are not those necessarily of 1306, but those of ten years
before, when Peter of Chester's executors made the original
PROVOST OE LAUSANNE. XXXV11
agreement. The stock which should have been in the
Provostry according to Peter of Chester's agreement was 92
bulls and bullocks, 42 horses or draft animals, 80 cows, 120
bullocks, young bulls, and calves, 40 of each kind, 600
"muttons" (multones=male sheep), 460 ewes, 86 swine,
including boars, sows, and pigs. On Abberwick's entry there
was deficient one bull, price 10s. ; 29 cows, price 8s. each ;
36 boves or bovetti, price 6s. each ; 24 bullocks, price 4s. each ;
while there were 6 calves beyond the minimum number, worth
9s. each. There were 70 sheep only out of 600, price of each
sheep, which the executors had to make up, Is. 6d. (or
£48 15s. in all — the sum, unless I have misread it, is wrong) ;
on the other hand there were 250 ewes in excess, worth 15d.
each and 288 hogs in excess at Is. each. All the other swine
had disappeared, ' ' having been stolen in spite of the care
taken by the Chapter for their safety/' and they were worth
£10 15s. at 2s. 6d. a head.
A battle royal rages in the Chapter Act Book round the next
Provost, though he himself never appears upon the stage. The
foreign syllables of Aymo de Carto, Hamo de Quarto, Eymo de
Cartoco, Edmund de Cardo, as with generous diversity he is
indifferently called, seem to have puzzled the phonetic spellers
of the day not a little. His first mention in English records
appears to be on 24 April, 1290, when Archbishop Eomanus
(p. 160) directed the Chapter of Beverley to admit the proctor
of Aymo de Carto, Papal chaplain, into the canonry and
prebend which the venerable father Sir B. (Boniface) de
Augusta had vacated on becoming Bishop-elect Sedunensis,
or of Sion — that hot place in the Rhone valley which the
seeker of Swiss mountains is so glad to see the back of — to
which he had been collated by Pope Nicholas IV. This
Savoyard had himself only been appointed by the Pope in
1287 (p. 154) on the expulsion of Robert of Scarborough,
Dean of York, from that prebend. It is probable that at
this time Aymo de Carto had not even set foot in England.
The prebend in question was the fattest one of all, the pre-
bend of S. Martin's, to which was annexed S. Mary's Church,
then a chapel. On 18 Jan., 129-J, letters of protection for
two years were granted to Edmund de Cardo, canon, of
VOL. ii. d
ARCHBISHOP CORBElDGE
Beverley, staying beyond seas.* On 8 April following t a pro-
tection for three years was granted to Eymo de Cartoco, canon
of Beverley, going beyond seas. It would seem therefore
that if he came to England at all, his stay was of the shortest.
Next year Archbishop Romanus visited the Chapter; when
Aymo de Quarto, who should have been present, was not,
and "as certain arduous business could not be conducted
without his presence," he was summoned to appear, but did
not, though one appeared and put forward by word of mouth
that he had gone to London by the King's licence on business
of Sir Otho of G-randison. He was pronounced contumacious
and summoned again to appear in York Minster on the next
law day before Palm Sunday (p. 173). It seems likely that
Komanus wanted to take proceedings against the absent
Aymo for non-residence. On 24 July, 1293, he was in
London, as a mysterious mandate was issued by the Arch-
bishop against a pronouncement or decree made by the Dean
of York (Henry of Newark, who became Archbishop in 1296)
and Canon Henry of Carlton, in London, which prejudiced the
Archbishop's ordinance as to residence, and from the head-
ing, though not the body of the document, affected Aymo
de Carto. We may conjecture that it was a finding that
King's clerks absent on the King's business were to be
treated as resident. He was clearly in high favour in high
quarters, as on 5 Jan., 1293, under the name of Aymo de
Carto, Precentor of Lyons, he was granted the house of
Quinac, near Lyons, belonging to the King through the
vacancy in the see of Canterbury. On 13 Nov., 1294,J Eymo
de Quarto, Provost of Lausanne, going beyond seas on the
King's service, nominated two foreigners as his attorneys.
Sometime between this date and 4 Oct., 1295, this Pre-
centor of Lyons and Provost of Lausanne became Provost of
Beverley, being called Provost when on the latter date he was
presented to the rectory of Dungarvan in Ireland, in Lismore
diocese, § and in the following year had protection as parson of
Dungarvan, staying in England ; || and again on 6 March,
1297. On the same day he obtained protection, under the
* Pat. 19 Edward I. m. 21. t Pat. 20 Edw. I. m. 17.
J Cal. Pat. Edw. I. p. 90. § Pat. 23 Edw. I. m. 5.
|| Pat. 24 Edw. I. p. i. m. 2.
VISITATION OF MINSTER 1302. xxxi*
title of Provost of Lausanne, as proctor of J. Judicis, Papal
notary, canon of Lincoln.
On 4 Feb., 1298, under the title of Provost of Beverley, he
went beyond seas with the King, and 1 and 6 April had pro-
tection on going to the Court of Rome, for two years. On
4 July, 1300, protection was granted for him staying beyond
seas to Easter. The Ay mo of Savoy, who in 1300 appears as
Archdeacon of York,* is not our friend, though of the same
country.
On 30 April, 1300,f the temporalities of the see of York
were restored to Thomas of Corbridge as archbishop. Within
a very few months he had begun a controversy with Ay mo
de Carto which eventually led to deprivation. There are
many documents bearing on the quarrel, but what began it
they do not reveal. On 27 July, 1300, the Archbishop
directed the Beverley Chapter at once to sequestrate all the
possessions of the Provostry, except the provisions for the
ministers of the church, tf for certain reasons which through
consideration and at the wish of our beloved son the Provost
we do not mention." A few days afterwards he told the
Chapter to make Mr. Walter of Gloucester and Henry of
Carlton, canons, keepers of the sequestration, Sir Emericus
(Aymer) de Carto, the Provost's brother, having complained
that it was too hard that the Beverley Chapter should
meddle with the goods of the Provostry.
On 27 Feb., 1301, the Archbishop announced his intention
of visiting the Provostry in North or " Cherry " Burton
church, and on 15 March he gave similar notice to visit
the Minster on Mid Lent Sunday. On 5 June, 1302, a
decree was made by the Archbishop on the result of this
visitation of the Minster, the only record of such a, visitation
which has hitherto come to light. The first article provided
for buying some new choir books, and the choir were told
not to halt in psalm singing, one side being too quick for
the other. The next directed the canons to go to chapter
and do their business quickly so that high mass might not
be deferred. It shows how slack the canons were that it
was necessary to lay down that at least one canon must
* Pat. 28 Ed. I. f Cal. Pat. p, 11.
xl ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE AND PROVOST AYMO.
always be in residence ; and if there were none then a
convocation or general meeting of the canons was to be
called. The clerks serving the stalls — the vicars choral —
were to be properly and promptly paid by the canons on
pain of double pay for every day in arrears. The vicars
were to receive 2d. out of every offering made at their
particular altar and a penny of every offering made when
they were celebrating at the high altar, as had been usual.
One of the vicars was to celebrate at the altar of S. Thomas
the Martyr as used to be done, and this was not to be omitted
without grave reason. The vicars were not to carry off the
candle ends after matins and vespers as they belonged to
the Sacrist, who was also entitled to candles offered at the
Great Beam across the middle of the choir, which were
not to burn there unless specially asked by the offerer.
The clerks of the " Berfell " were directed to reside (those
clerkships were in fact, as we have seen, mostly treated as
university exhibitions and given to young men still pursuing
their education), and the Chapter's assessor or legal adviser
was not to be a married man, " which is not decent or
expedient." On the vexed question of the residence of the
three dignitaries and the corrodies and share of the non-
resident canons in offerings and oblations, the ordinance of
Eomanus was to be observed and a copy of it sent to the
Archbishop. The case of the Provost and his servants in
the Bedern was reserved.
What precisely were the gravamina against the Provost
never appears. But in the following year, 6 April 1303,
the struggle produced a letter in French from the Arch-
bishop to the King (p. J87), which he sent to Sir John
of Benstede (Benstede in Hunton, in Kent), who was a
clerk in Chancery and perhaps King's secretary,* and
afterwards Chancellor of the Exchequer, asking him to
read a copy enclosed of the letter and expedite its pre-
sentation, " leaving out any clause in it which you think
better omitted until you find a fitting opportunity." He
mentions some matter about which William of Hamilton
had written. This William, being a Master in Chancery,
* FOBS, ii. 231.
LETTER TO KING EDWARD I. xll
was Precentor of Beverley, Archdeacon and then Dean of
York, Vice-chancellor of England in 1296 and Keeper of
the Great Seal on several occasions, and from Dec., 1304
to his death in 1307, Chancellor. The Archbishop also
wrote to various other persons about the Court whom he
hoped might get the ear of the King in the matter. The
letter to • the King is worth giving in full. " Dear Sir.
Words fly, and we have heard that the Provost of Beverley
has come to you and given you to understand certain con-
ditions of the Provostry other than the true ones, and
has said other things to you by which perhaps you may
be moved against us, which we should much regret.
Wherefore it seems better for us to write to your highness
the truth about the Provostry and our doings. Sir, if you
please, truly we understand that the franchise of the
church of Beverley was given at the beginning by your
ancestors, especially by the good King Athelstan, who gave
to G-od and S. John and his seven priests the franchise, fair
and noble which you have heard, as we understand. And
from that time, Sir, the said S. John " — we may observe that
the Archbishop's history is somewhat vague when he tran-
sports S. John from the seventh to the tenth century. He had
not read his Bede nor the introduction to our first volume —
te ordained the church of Beverley and made canons and
ordained the Bedern to serve the canons and ministers of the
church, and made a Provost who takes oath loyally to do the
service. And all the successors of S. John have given the
Provostry, one after the other, except in time of vacancy
(of the see). And this fact is notorious, the Provost ought
to know, as he entered by means of the Apostolic See,
which he could not have done if the collation had not belonged
to the Archbishop. And our predecessors have visited, as
occasion demanded, the canons and the Provost and the Pro-
vostry, and we ourselves have twice visited it peaceably and
made amendments. And because we found in our last visi-
tation that the Provost had given the church of Patrington to
a person, a cousin of his who was not half of age and was not
made priest, we directed our Official to call that person
before him according to law to know the truth of the
business. And that person came by proxy and answered,
xlii COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE PROVOST.
and pleaded before the Official, and it was declared by
process in our Court Christian that the church was vacant
for a year or more, so that the collation had devolved
upon us, and was given by our authority to another person
who has entered peaceably and holds it and ought to hold it
by strict right. And, dear Sir, the aforesaid Provost in the
process complained of the Official and demanded delay, which
we granted as willingly as if he had been our brother, but it
seemed to him from our good nature that he could override
us, and began to take away our jurisdiction both inside and
outside the church of Beverley. And as we had been
friends, and also for reverence to you, we prayed him come
to us at Cawood twice, and showed him fairly and lovingly
that he ought to behave himself as our clerk, and ought not
to spoil our folk or occupy our estate, and we came to terms
in this fashion, that we should name three persons on whom
we could agree who should hear the claims made on either
side and deliver seisin accordingly. But when it came to the
day assigned the Provost would not keep the terms, and so it
was said that each should do his best. Then the Provost
asked me by Mr. Robert of Pickering" — a senior clerk
or master in Chancery, who since 1288 had been canon
of Beverley of the prebend of S. Peter and S. Paul, and
since ^294 also a canon of York — <( to postpone the matter
till Easter. And we replied that we should be pleased to
do so as to the temporalities, but as to the spiritualities we
wanted to make amendments for the holy season in the defaults
which we had found touching his benefices and himself, and
summoned him before us. And when he heard talk of the
summons he hid himself, went away, and we do not know where
he has gone. Some say he is in Scotland. And, Sir, if you
knew how we kept him at our house (chiez nous), what grace
we offered him, if he would take our counsel to his profit and
without damage to himself, and how he despised us and what
' mows and pows ' (mowes et chapous) he over and over again
vouchsafed us, you would be astonished as we are. And, dear
Sir, as we hold the place which S. John held, and would
hold if he were now alive, to whom you have great devotion,
as we well know, we pray your Highness to maintain us in
that place, and help us to do our duty without disturbance
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE PROVOST. xliii
by the Provost, to whom we are ready and prepared to do all
that is reasonable if he will listen to us. But we are told
that he will create a great disturbance if you listen to his
words. And, Sir, whereas the Provost's men have sent a
great force of laymen to the aforesaid church to disturb
what we have done, will you please order your Sheriff to
remove the lay force which has been brought by the Pro-
vost's men to the said church. And if the Provost says that
he has appealed to the Court of Rome, Sir, if it please you
the care of all appeals belongs to the churches of York
and Canterbury, and that is a thing known and notorious
through all England.
The Lord keep you sound and safe and grant you good
life and long and to return with joy. Given at Wilton,
5 April, 1303."
This Wilton must be Bishop's Wilton near Pocklington,
as the next day a letter of the Archbishop's was dated
from " Burton by Beverley," i.e Bishop or South Burton
(i. 4), addressed to the Archdeacon of the East Riding
and all other ecclesiastical officials in the Riding to enforce
at once the Chapter's mandate for the due payment of
thraves to the Chapter. For nearly a whole year nothing
more transpires. But in January, 1304, the Archbishop
was on the war-path again. From Cawood, on 6 Jan., 1304
(i. 5), he issued a letter to the Chapter of Beverley, re-
minding them how, formerly (dudum) he had in the Minster
in the presence of many of them and a multitude of clerics
and people, publicly and solemnly, with candles lighted and
extinguished, denounced as excommunicate all violators of
the Archbishop's liberty in Beverley, secret or open, in the
town, or outside the town in the neighbouring towns, or in
parks or other places pertaining to the liberty ; although all
such violators ipso facto incurred the sentence of greater
excommunication solemnly pronounced four times a year in the
Minster against all those infringing the liberty of S. John.
He now requires them to publish this sentence not only in
the church on Sundays and feast days but in the market-
place when full ; and to find out the names of any such
violators and send them to him by Mid Lent. We can
hardly doubt that this letter was directed against the Pro-
Xliv BEVERLEY CANONS MUST BE PRIESTS.
vost and his people. For the day before directions issued to
the Official of the Conrt of York, directing him to stop the
proceedings against James of Avysio, " who calls himself
rector of Patrington," to send up the records to the Arch-
bishop himself, and cite the said persons to appear before the
Archbishop at Cawood on Thursday after the Purification of
the Virgin, which was on 2 February. This James of Arisio
with his foreign name was no doubt the Provost's cousin,
mentioned in the letter to the King. He was rector of Strat-
ford-on-Avon, and widely beneficed in England elsewhere.
On 25 Feb. the case was remitted to the Official, with
directions to admit any one the Archbishop might collate to
Patrington, if it was declared by judgment to be vacant, as
its collation would then fall to him by lapse.
On 14 March (p. 191) the Official sitting in the chapel of
Our Lady and the Holy Angels, the collegiate church which
stood on the north side of the nave of York Minster, as
special commissioner of the Archbishop, collated Sir William
of Soothill (Sothill), priest, to the living of Patrington and
invested him bodily in the same a by our glove "; and the
same day a letter issued in the name of the Archbishop to the
Official reciting how he had pronounced judgment that the
living was vacant and passed to the Archbishop by lapse
and had collated Soothill, and thereupon determining the
commission. Next day a commission issued to Robert of
Scorbrough (Scoreburg^) to induct Soothill and defend him
when inducted.
Meanwhile the Archbishop proceeded against the Provost
himself. On 2 March* he addressed a summons "to his
beloved son in Christ," " Whereas by canon law it was pro-
hibited that anyone should hold several dignities, parsonage
churches, or ecclesiastical benefices, to which cure of souls is
attached, without special dispensation from the apostolic see ;
but he has taken and still holds the precentorship of Lyons
and the provostries of Lausanne and Beverley ... to all and
singular of which cure of souls is annexed, and also is
rector of the parish church of Dungarvan (Duncarvan), and
converts the profits to his own use," " Therefore on the
* p. 194, from the Archbishop's Register.
ARCHBISHOP TO CHANCELLOR GREENFIELD.
instigation of his conscience and in execution of his office "
the Archbishop summoned him to appear on Tuesday after
Mid Lent Sunday in York Minster to show his dispensations
" if he has any." On the 7 March* the (Rural) Dean of Hart-
hill was informed that " the said Aymo craftily, as we have
been given to understand, avoiding the summons and man-
date, has maliciously contrived that our letters may not reach
the said Aymo personally." So the Dean was directed to
go to the Minster next Sunday and also to the Bedern and
peremptorily summon the said Aymo ; and if he is not there
to publish and give the summons while high mass is being
sung " (what would be thought of the person who nowadays
served a writ in the middle of the communion service ?) " to
his proctor if he has one, or at all events to the clerks and
laymen known as his intimates and friends, in the mother
tongue " (was that English or French ? — probably the latter)
" so that there may be no secret about it, and to leave a copy
on the high altar of the church, and in the hall of the
Bedern/' Another letter was sent the same day to the same
Dean to the same effect to cite Aymo in general terms to
appear and answer what might be objected against him.
In this letter the Archbishop says he had sent the summons
to Aymo's " prebendal house where before he had spent no
little time and was believed certainly to be found." The same
day another line of attack was opened up by a letter to the
Chapter of Beverley reciting that the prebends of Beverley
"must be held by priests (sacerdotales existant) by its first
institution and ordinance " — referring no doubt to the " seven
minster prestes" of Athelstan's Charter, of which anon- — "but
Aymo deCarto their fellow canon and brother who has obtained
one of the said.priestly prebends is not yec ordained priest,"
so they are to warn him to be ordained within the canonical
time. If they could not serve the warning on him personally
the procedure was to be the same as in the other case, the copy
being left in his stall and prebendal house, instead of the
high altar and the Bedern.
Yet another document issued the same day to the Dean
of Harthill. " The Apostle says, ' children ought not to lay
* i. 7 from the Chapter Act Book.
xlvi PROVOST AYMO DEPOSED.
up treasures for their parents but parents for their children.'
It is therefore far from fatherly love when Provosts are
grievous to their subordinates. Considering therefore that
according to the loud complaints of the clergy and people of
the Provostry Aymo de Carto presumes to grieve his subjects
as well clerical as lay with immoderate tallages (talliis) and
exactions without reasonable cause and by undue exactions
has extracted and extorts money from them, besides designing
other things in derogation of our rights and those of the
church of Beverley," therefore he is to go to the Provostry
and inhibit Ayino from these exactions. If not, then he was
to be summoned as before. On 20 March the Chapter and
the four Deans in the East Riding were directed to excom-
municate all " the sons of iniquity " who attack William of
SothilFs possession of Patrington rectory.
On 2 April the Archbishop prepared for the final pro-
ceedings by a commission to John of Nassington, the Official
of the Court of York, and Adam of Hedon, a chantry priest
in York Minster, to examine what rights and dispensations
Ayino has, if any, for his plurality. Next day he wrote to
William of Greenfield, tf Chancellor of the illustrious King
of England, and canon of York" (he was also Dean of
Chichester) to use a little private influence in the proceedings.
"We have just heard (audivimus de novo)" he says, "that
a royal letter, to be addressed to us on behalf of the Provost,
has been formed and framed at the instigation and suggestion
of the said Aymo, the purport of which the King has inclosed
to you in the letters which he has directed on behalf of
Aymo; among other things commanding you to get the
said letters sealed with the great seal, if it be found that
such a thing can be done or has been hitherto issued from
chancery, or can lawfully issue without wrong to any one.
Now, as the matter on which this form is conceived merely
relies on the spiritual sword, and no way touches the temporal
sword, and no such letter has ever before passed through
chancery, and if it were to do so now would be to the utmost
prejudice of our church and the whole church of God, espe-
cially in England, and to the injury and weakening of eccle-
siastical franchises ; we ask your beloved friendship specially,
that if the case is, as we are informed, left by the King to
AYMO AS BISHOP OP GENEVA. xlvii
your discretion, you will see to it that no letter issues from
chancery, which may any way derogate from the rights of
ourself, our church of York, or that of Canterbury, or the
whole Church of England. Nor ought the words of others
of the court to move you, as you know better what weight
attaches to letters of this kind, and what loss and injury
might arise to the prelates and the whole church from such
letters."
Next month, 1 May (i. 15), the Archbishop hears that
Aymo de Carto has been elected a bishop, and proposed to
assign everything belonging to the Provostry to William of
Hamilton, Dean of York, also, and as we have seen, a
chancery official, in payment of a debt. He writes off there-
fore to the Chapter, who, as he says, knows better than he
does how far it's true that the whole subsistence of the Bedern
depends on these possessions, and directs them to sequestrate
the Provostry. Two days afterwards he hears that by agree-
ment between the Chapter and Hamilton and Carto the corn
in three places is to be assigned to meet the Provost's debt
to the Dean ; he tells them this is illegal without a special
convocation of canons, and the assent of the Archbishop,
and directs them to sequestrate all the corn wanted for the
sustenance of the Bedern for the year. On 8 May (i. 20-1)
the Chapter carry out the mandate, saying that they hear
Aymo has been elected Bishop of Geneva and is making
sale of the Provostry " to get baggage so that he may go
to the place where God has provided him with his dignity, to
receive it by the grace of God," and sequestrate the whole.
On 23 May (i. 16) the Official of York informs the Chapter
that Eanletus de Cornelione, Aymo's proctor, has been excom-
municated for his contumacy in court, and the Provost for
not appearing, and directs them to proclaim the excom-
munication with bells ringing and candles lighted. Next
day (p. 199) the Archbishop directed the Official and his
commissary-general to proceed to sentence against Aymo for
having despised the monition addressed to him and not taken
any steps to be promoted to the priesthood.
The sentence must have been quickly pronounced, for
on 3 June, 1304 (p, 200), the Archbishop at Cawood con-
ferred the prebend "late of Aymo de Carto now vacant"
xlviii PROVOST ROBERT OF ABBERWICK, 1304-6.
on this very Official, John of Nassington, pries fc, and the
Provostry (p. 201) on Mr. Robert of Abberwick (Alberwyk),
priest.
The issue mattered very little to the dispossessed Provost
and Canon, who had, in fact, as the Archbishop and Chapter
had heard, been elected Bishop of Geneva. The Latin name
for Geneva, Gebennensis, seems to have sorely puzzled the
historians of Beverley. Poulson * calls it Giber en ensis, and
very wisely does not attempt to identify it ; while Oliver,
wildly plunging,t says he was made Bishop of Gloucester,
a see which did not exist till after the dissolution of
monasteries.
It is highly probable that if he had not been elected
Bishop, Aymo would not have been deprived quite so easily.
On 31 March, Boniface de Carto, his brother, was presented
by the King to Dungarvan Church. Aymo soon after set off
to Rome, protection being granted him for the purpose on
16 April. J The deprivation was probably hurried on so that
the filling of the vacancies might fall to the Archbishop, and
not to the Pope or the King, who would have claimed the
patronage if Aymo had vacated it by promotion. As Bishop
of Geneva Aymo merely entered on a family living, being
the third Aymo of the same line : Aymo I., 1215 to 1260;
Aymo II., 1268-1304; while Aymo III., our ex-Provost, was
consecrated 5 Oct., 1304. One of the same family, Aymo,
Precentor of Geneva, son of the late Count of Geneva, was,
by mandate of Pope Alexander IV., § directed to the Arch-
bishop of Vienne, to be admitted Bishop of Viviers, " not-
withstanding that the said precentor is not in holy orders."
Our Aymo had thus a family dislike to holy orders coupled
with a family facility for the enjoyment of the endowments
of the church. As late as 2 July, 1306, Aymo de Quarto,
Bishop of Geneva, " staying beyond seas," received the
King's protection for two years. It does not appear that
he ever returned to England. He died 13 Oct., 1311. || His
* P. 650. f P. 389. J Pat. 32 Ed. I. m. 22.
§ Reg. d'Alexandre IV. par M. Bourel de la Ronciere, &c. Paris, 1895, p. 40,
No. 149.
|| Series Episcoporum ecclesice catholicce. P. P. B. Gams. Ratisbon, 1873,
p. 277.
PROVOST ROBERT OF ABBERWICK xllX
dispossessor, the Archbishop, did not long enjoy his triumph,
as on 25 Sept., 1304, the Chapter of York wrote to the
Chapter of Beverley to put all his goods there under
sequestration as he was dead (i. 32).
On 8 June, 1304, Robert of Abberwick (Alberwyk) was
admitted to the vacant Provostry (i. 27). On that day an
interesting inventory of its possessions was taken by the
Chapter, under the sequestration which had been entrusted
to Thomas of Grraingham, vicar of S. Peter's altar. If
it includes all the furniture, and not merely that which
Aymo de Quarto had a claim to, the Bedern was not over
luxuriously furnished. In the great hall there was one good
dining table, two poor ones (debiles); one old tablecloth
for the vicars, value Is. ; one of canvas for the Serjeants
(servientibus) and another for the servants (garcionibus),
worth 8d. each. In the small hall was one table and a trestle
form. There is no mention of chairs or forms, but the vicars
and servants could hardly have supplied their own. There is
no use in following the inventory into the kitchen, especially
as the translation of the things described is not very certain.
The larder had 20 whole beef carcases and 3 " bacons,"
and the granary 4 quarters of wheat and 134 quarters
of malt, which looks as if the canons were going to have
a big brew, and that bread bore a small proportion to the
beer.
Who Kobert of Abberwick was we do not know. For once
in a way the Provost does not seem to have been a civil
servant. He does not appear in Foss' pages. Nor was he
beneficed in York Minster seemingly. William of Abber-
wick, probably a nephew, after holding divers prebends,
became Precentor in 1321* and canon of Beverley in 1330
(ii. 811). But Robert himself is unknown to fame. He
was not even a canon of Beverley, as most other Provosts
were. When a disturbance seemed imminent about "cer-
tain things which are lately said in our Bedern at Beverley
in derogation of the estate of our church, [hitherto ?]
not done nor even attempted, by our servants and those
* Le Neve's Fasti.
i PROVOST WALTER REYNOLDS, 1306-8.
of the Provost/' the Chapter directed two vicars choral to
summon him to attend the Chapter on Thursday before
Whitsuntide to treat of a friendly reformation (i. 68).
When the day arrived Abberwick's proctor in the Bedern
appeared and presented " a probable and proper excuse
(excusationem probabilem et honestam) " for non-appearance,
which the Chapter, " having regard to the estate and honour
of the Provost, graciously accepted," and the Chapter
adjourned the consideration of what had been attempted
by the said proctor, the steward, cooks, bread and beer
butlers (discularium et pincernam) against the rights and
customs of the Bedern.
It is not a little comic to find William Bowet, the Bedern
cook, appearing in Chapter on 5 Nov. following and humbly
seeking and obtaining absolution from the excommunication
he had incurred " for a certain work ... a certain little
chamber (earner -nlam)" constructed in the Bedern kitchen.
It was granted solemnly te with the Psalm Miserere mei
Domine," and "the Lord's Prayer and the prayer 'Lord
whose office is pity/ and the rest of the requisites in such
a case." The same was granted to John the porter by proxy,
penance being reserved. There is no subsequent mention of
the matter, so probably no penance was done. The incident
puts in a laughable light the abuse of the power of the
spiritual weapon of excommunication for petty secular ends,
which often receives a lurid light when, as in the case of
King John, the secular ends were high political objects.
We can hardly wonder at the Irish peasants paying their
ecclesiastical superiors the homage of imitation in reproducing
excommunication as the " boycott."
In July, 1304, when Robert of Abberwick appointed John
of Amcoats to a Berfellarship (i. 107), the collation was dated
at Auckland, so it seems likely that he was Dean or Canon
of that Collegiate Church. On 5 March, 1306, Mr. Richard
of Insula was admitted Precentor on collation of Abberwick,
but the place at which the appointment was made does not
appear. These are the only known acts of his in relation to
Beverley. By 28 March, 1306, he was dead. For on that
day Archbishop Greenfield's vicar-general, John of Crowcomb
(Craucumb), the Arqhdeacon of the West Riding (i. 115),
PROVOST WILLIAM OF MELTON. 1308-18. li
and a minor clerk in Chancery,* sequestrated the goods of
the Provostry ; a sequestration which he removed on
11 April, finding that the right to it belonged to the
Chapter not the Archbishop (i. 116). Except for the usual
difficulties between Abberwick's executors and the Chapter
as to the administration of these goods, settled by an
agreement on the lines of that between Peter of Chester's
executors and Aymo de Carto, this is all we hear of this evanes-
cent Provost, who most probably never set foot in Beverley.
On 3 April, 1306, the King, in the vacancy of the Arch-
bishopric consequent on the death of Thomas of Corbridge,
gave the Provostry to his beloved clerk Walter Reynolds
(Reginaldi) . It is rather astonishing to find a person who
had already been tutor to Prince Edward, who was a canon
of S. Paul's and of sufficient importance to be Provost of
Beverley, borrowing the seal of Sir Walter, t Bishop of
Coventry and Lichfield, to affix to the appoinment of a
proctor to be admitted Provost for him " because his seal
was unknown to most." On 13 April Archbishop Greenfield's
vicar-general issued a mandate to the Chapter to the same
purpose, but the Chapter set this aside as contrary to
custom ; and, after some demur, because the King's collation
was addressed in general terms " to all to whom these pre-
sents may come " instead of to the Chapter direct, admitted
Reynolds Provost on 24 April.
In the case of Reynolds as in that of his predecessor, there
is no evidence of his ever holding a canonry or prebend of
Beverley as was usual, and it is highly probable that he was
never near the place. He held the Provostry a bare two
years, as he was consecrated Bishop of Worcester April,
1308, being then Treasurer of England, an office which he
had received almost immediately on Edward II. 's accession,
22 August, 1307. The only document connecting his name
with Beverley is one of 28 April, 1308, when his successor
in the Provostry, William of Melton, sealed his appointment
of a proxy to be admitted in his place with the seal of "the
venerable father Sir W. by grace of God elect of Worcester,"
* Foss. ii. 14. These minor clerks were afterwards known as the Six Clerks,
f Misprinted William.
Hi PROVOST WILLIAM OE MELTON.
" because his own seal," as Walter Reynolds' liad been only
two years before, ' c is unknown to most."
Yet William Melton had been about the court for years.
Coming from Melton in Holderness he was early attached to
the household, for Edward II. when writing to the Pope
pressing Melton's promotion to the Archbishopric of York
said of him * that " he has been constant in my service from
the beginning of my life." He first emerges into the light
of benefices on 4 Jan., 1296,t when he was presented to the
rectory of Reepham (Refham), near Lincoln, in the King's
gift by reason of the custody of the lands and heir of John
de Nevill, tenant in chief. In 1301, 22 June, he is described
as King's clerk when he was appointed to pay the wages of
certain soldiers chosen by Hamo de Macy in Wales ; and was
no doubt an officer of the Exchequer. On the accession of
the Prince of Wales, 8 July, 1307, as Edward II., Melton was
made Keeper of the Wardrobe, and on 1 Oct., 1307, was
Privy Seal. As Keeper of the Wardrobe he had charge of
the Great Seal from 21 January, 1308, when Edward took it
with him on his journey to Boulogne to marry Isabella of
France, till his return on 7 February. He was not techni-
cally Keeper, as Foss has shown, } the Chancellor, John de
Langton remaining in England and using a temporary seal,
which was handed by him to Melton when he got back the
Great Seal, and deposited in the Exchequer by Melton, now
called the King's Secretary § (Secretarius).
On 10 Jan., 1308, || Melton was made Dean of S. Martin's
le Grand, the ancient collegiate church of Saxon foundation,
which occupied the site of the General Post Office. Next
to the deanery of St. Paul's this was probably the best piece
of preferment in London. On 20 Feb. he received the
* "Nostrae aetatis primordiis nostris insistebat obsequiis/' Rymer's Feeder ay
ii. 107. The words do not at all suggest the inference drawn by Foss, ii. 461,
that he was employed in the Prince's education.
f Calendar of Patent Rolls.
I Eoss, ii. 180.
§ Cal. Close Rolls, 1 Edw. II. m. 11.
|| Cal. Close Rolls. Order to deliver seizin. 30 Aug. 1308, Pat. 2, Edw. II.
pt. i. m. 20.
MELTON AS PRIVY SEAL. liii
rectory of " Fakenhamdam." On 13 Oct. lie was made Arch-
deacon of Barnstaple. On 22 Oct., 1308, lie was appointed
by Archbishop William Greenfield, himself, as we have seen,
an ex-chancellor, to the Provostry of Beverley (i. 228), and
on 20 Nov. was admitted to it by the Chapter in the person
of William de la Mare, his proctor. The Chapter would not
grant him the temporalities, so to speak, or, as they put it,
give him the administration of the goods of the Provostry
until he appeared in Chapter personally and made the due
and customary oath of good administration. The Chapter
named 1 Feb. for this purpose, the proctor undertaking that
Melton should appear. But when that day arrived there
came not William of Melton but a letter in French, under
the Privy Seal (which Melton kept), dated 23 January, at
(King's) Langley, addressed by the King " to his good people
(bonez gents) of the chapitre of Beverlee " to say that his
dear clerk was living with him by his command, and he
could not let him go, and so he begged them to excuse his
coming at " Chandelour," i.e. Candlemas, the Purification of
the Yirgin. On 10 April William de la Mare again appeared
with a special form of proxy enabling him to bind the Pro-
vost's soul by taking the usual oath on his behalf, and then
yielding to the King's entreaty the Chapter allowed his
proctor to take the oath and let Melton's nominee, William
of Carlisle, into the administration of the Bedern (i. 233).
At this time Melton was not yet a canon of Beverley. But
this defect was remedied by an exchange with Mr. William
of Lincoln, canon of Beverley, for a prebend held by Melton
(i. 137) in the collegiate church of Westbury-on-Trym, which
Bishop Geoffrey Giffard of Worcester in the thirteenth cen-
tury, and Bishop Carpenter, ex- Provost of Oriel, in the
fifteenth century, made strenuous efforts to convert into a
cathedral church, so that they might have a proper chapter
of clergy instead of the monks of Worcester.
On 3 May, 1309, Melton was collated by the Archbishop
to the prebend lately held by Mr. William of Lincoln,* that
namely of S. Michael, made illustrious by the tenure of
Thomas a Becket, and was admitted, but by proxy only, on
* William of Lincoln retired from the prebend in Westbury on 29 Nov., 1311,
*' propter imbecillitatem." Worcester Register. Walter Reynolds, f. 38 b.
VOL. ii. e
[ELTON BECOMES ARCHBISHOP.
20 May. There is no trace of Melton's ever having been in
person at Beverley till close on three years later. Even at
the general convocation of canons, held once a year, he
was only represented by proxy. The form used dated at
Berwick -on-Tweed, 15 April, 25 April, 1310, is given. In
it Melton says that " through pressure of arduous and great
business concerning as well our illustrious Lord the King of
England in whose daily service I am notoriously employed as
the estate and common advantage of the said kingdom and
the happy expedition, by the help of the lord to the Holy
Land* by which I am canonically prevented from being
absent from the service of the lord King/' and begs to be
excused, and appoints John of Nassington, the Archbishop's
Official or Chancellor, as his proxy. Similar proxies were put
in on behalf of Sir John of Sandal, another canon, who was
Treasurer of the Exchequer. One of these is particularly
interesting as being dated (1256) from "Markingfeld in the
Hall of Sir John of Markyngfeld, canon of York," the builder
of the existing hall at Markenfield near Kipon, himself a
cleric and Exchequer official.
As provost Melton obtained a charter dated at Newcastle,
7 Sept., 1310,t confirming to himself and the canons the
Letters Patent of 9 Nov. 5 John, 1203, commanding the men
of Holderness to deliver at the doors of the granges of the
church thraves as the King did for his demesnes of the Wold
(de Waldo) and in default the Justices of England or Sheriff
of York to arrest them. He did not cease accumulating
benefices. On 28 May, 1311, he obtained the church of
Brigham in the archdeaconry of Richmond. The Patent and
Close Bolls are full of grants, pardons, commissions, and
orders of all kinds made " on the information of Sir William
de Melton."
At length, on 5 May, 1312, Melton appeared in person in
Chapter not as Provost but as a canon of somewhat junior
standing. As a canon he took part in settling a dispute on
an illuminating point in the history of grammar schools,
whether, namely, the choristers should be admitted without
* By an absurd misprint this appears as terrse, sedem instead of terree sanctss
in the text, i. 287.
f Fat. 4 Edw. II., pt. i. m. ii.
PAYMENT TO ROME. Iv
paying fees. He had perhaps come to make preparations
for the coming of Lady Margaret, the widow of Edward I.
For on 12 July she came and next day heard service in
the Minster and is recorded rather grudgingly as having
given " a round gold ornament of moderate size, which
was at once affixed to S. John's shrine." The Court being
now in the neighbourhood on the disastrous expedition
against Scotland which ended in Bannockburn, Melton was
present in Beverley on 2 April and 20 May, 1314. In the
Convocation of 17 Sept., 1316, he was absent, but it is recorded
with pride by the Chapter Clerk that " in this year two of
the canons were bishops-elect, Melton to York and John of
Sandal to Winchester, but nevertheless they were summoned
in common form like the rest," i.e. as simple canons. When
the convocation came Melton was at Rome getting his pall,
and Sandal was Chancellor of England. Melton had to pay
a heavy price for his confirmation as Archbishop, so he was
allowed to hold his provostry and canonry for a considerable
time after his consecration, though he had vacated the office
of Keeper of the Wardrobe.* It was not till 13 Jan., 1318,
that, being present in Beverley, he, as Archbishop, directed
the admission of his successor Nicholas Huggate who had
been collated by the King on 4 Jan., and was as usual not
present in person. Melton, rather unconscionably perhaps,
seeing that he had been Provost and Canon all the time, on
27 April, 1318, wrote to the Chapter to have the whole of the
"Archbishop's corrody in the Bedern" which had accrued
during the vacancy of the archbishopric paid to him to help
him to meet the heavy debts he had incurred at Home. Further
payment of these debts was made by the presentation of an
Italian, Barnabas Malaspina, who was attached to the Papal
Nuncio then in England, to the canonry of S. Michael (i. 339;
and also of the Pope's Yice- Chancellor, Cardinal John, to the
prebend of Driffield in York Minster, which Melton had held.
This prebend was held by a succession of Italians throughout
his reign, as was also the archdeaconry of York; which indeed
was held by foreigners, occasionally French but most Italians,
* Pat. 1316, 4 March ; allowance of debt of King under seals of Ingelram de
Warle late, and William de Melton now, Keeper of the Wardrobe. 1316
25 Nov. , Melton is described as late Keeper of the Wardrobe.
Ivi PROVOST NICHOLAS OF HTJGATE, 1318-38.
continuously from 1304 to 1380. Heavy indeed was the
price paid by England and the churchmen of England for the
rule of the Holy Father. In nearly every cathedral, the
chancellorship, in many the deanery, and in all multitudinous
prebends were held by Italians, who drained England and its
revenues to maintain the venal splendour of the Court of
Home.
Of Nicholas of Hugate we first hear in 1308, when he
was named second of four proctors appointed by William
of Melton to get admission to the Provostry for him.
Hugate was of course, as his name shows, a Yorkshireman
from Huggate, near Pocklington, in the East Riding. He
was about the Court from his youth up. A general release
of claims on him by Edward III., 4 Nov., 1334,* says that
it is made " in consideration of his manifold services to the
King from boyhood." The Calendars of Patent and Close
Eolls reveal him as a King's clerk receiving payment in the
usual shape of ecclesiastical benefices, e.g. the wardenship
of S. Nicholas' Hospital outside York ; the rectory of Carlow
(Catherlegh) in the diocese of Leighlin (pronounced Lochlin)
on 24 May, 1308 ; and on 14 June the church of Scarthoe
(Scarthou) in the diocese of Lincolnshire, which he only
held for a month. He had already held preferment in
Wales in the shape of the King's Free Chapel of Aber at
Bangor, which he resigned on 16 April, 1309. On 15 Feb.,
1310, he was presented to Benningworth, Lincolnshire.
Nicholas Huggate was described as Treasurer of the Prince,
which means the Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward III.,
when he made his first appearance in Chapter at Beverley,
having been appointed to S. James' Prebend on 10 April,
1316. Sixteen years afterwards reference is made to his
being still Treasurer of the household of the King ' c before
he assumed the governance of the realm." t On 2 Jan., 1318,
Huggate was appointed Provost by Edward II. by virtue of
the vacancy in the see on Greenfield's death and was, as we
have seen, admitted 15 Jan., 1318, by the new Archbishop,
one of the proctors who appeared for him being William
* Cal. Pat. Kolls.
f Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1332, 31 March.
KEEPER OF THE KING'S WARDROBE. Ivii
de la Mare, probably Ms successor in the office. Huggate
held the Provostry for no less than twenty years. At Beverley
his steward was Simon of Huggate, presumably a relation,
who was apparently an active man of business. He got the
abbot, prior, sub-prior, and all the officers of Meanx Abbey
excommunicated for not paying a judgment debt of £20 (i. 371);
and after a process extending from 24 May, 1319 to 28 (mis-
printed 21) March, 1320 (i. 375), made the tenants of Earl
Percy at Leconfield (Leckingfield) pay tithe of hay in respect
of which they alleged the Earl had a " privilege." For some
fifteen years there is no trace of the presence of Huggate at
Beverley. He duly exercised his powers of patronage of
chancellorship, sacristy, and the like, but his letters of
collation are always dated from London, where he was
assiduously engaged in the public service and in filling up
preferments. Thus in 1327 he was given a house in York
forfeited by Mr. Michael de Harcla. On 9 April, 1328, he
was given the prebend of Kynaston. in the Collegiate Church
of Wolverhampton, but had to give it up again a year after-
wards as it was found that the Dean of Wolverhampton had
the right of presentation. A prebend in the College of
Wingham (Wengham), Kent, previously held by John de
Grandison, Bishop of Exeter, proved a more lasting treasure.
But Huggate eventually obtained the Wolverhampton prebend
6 Dec., 1330, twenty years afterwards, during the vacancy of
the deanery by the death of this same dean.
In 1330 and 1331 when as we said (i. ci. seq.) there was
an organised conspiracy of the parochial clergy of the East
Biding against the payment of thraves, Huggate was diligent
in his attendance at the convocations and chapters of canons
(ii. 91-9) and was deputed by the canons to represent them
in Parliament. His bill for his journey and stay there on
the business, 35 days, going, staying, and returning, "in
bread, wine, beer, flesh, fish, hay, oats, and the like," came
to £22 2s. lid. besides £7 9s. lid. for the fees of the Chan-
cellor, Master of the Rolls, and the writing of a charter,
cords of green silk and everything " except the King's fee."
He also asked for ten marks for loss of a baggage animal,
and £6 15s. for costs of a suit in the ecclesiastical court of
York against Sir Ichorius Concorreto, rector of Kirk Ella
Iviii BEVERLEY CANONS AT BEYERS.
(Elveley). The charter in question appears to be that on
the Patent Roll, 30 Nov., 1330, an inspeximus and confirma-
tion of a charter of 7 Sept. 4 Edward II., itself inspecting
and confirming letters patent of 5 John, recognising the
right to thraves, even from the king's own lands.
In 1332, Hugate was apparently retiring from public life,
as he obtained from the King a release of all debts due from
him when Receiver of Grascony or Keeper of the Wardrobe or
in any other office. But the Beverley business still dragged
on, in spite of the royal charter, and it was not till Hugate
had obtained a royal letter to the Archbishop (p. 109) and the
Archbishop had directed every rector in the deanery of
Harthill to be warned against "putting his sickle in another's
crop " that the conspiracy came to an end. The Thomas of
Hugate, chaplain, who bore the banner of S. John of Beverley
in the expedition against Scotland in 1335 (p. 112), was no
doubt a relation of this Provost.
It was about this year that the famous rhymed charter of
King Athelstan to Beverley was first composed (p. 280), and
the learned Provost may well be credited with a share in its
composition. A very large part of it, 31 lines out of 80,
devoted to the right to thraves and the power of arrest for
non-payment, strongly suggests that the whole document was
concocted for the sake of meeting the conspiracy of the East
Riding rectors against the payment of the thraves.
Another document of this time (p. 304) , an amusing anticipa-
tion of Rabelais' and Sir Walter Besant's Abbey of Thelema,
depicts the canons of Beverley in a not wholly creditable
light. An Anglo-French satirist tells his hearers the
story of a new Religious Order "which is very delightful
and fine,'' which is called the Order of Fair Ease, Bel Eyse,
in parody of Bella Landa, (Byland), Bello Loco (Bewley),
Bello capite (Beauchief), and the Prior of Durham's Bello
redditu (Beau repair, now Bear Park). This order is eclectic,
taking all the best points from every other order, good eating
from one, good sleeping from another, and so on. " From
Beverley they have taken a point, which will be well and
straitly kept, to drink well at dinner, and thence afterwards
to supper; and afterwards at collation, each must have a
piece of candle as long as to the elbow, and as long as
PROVOST HUGATE'S WILL, 1338. lix
there is a gutter of the candle to burn, the brethren must
drink hard." As pointed out in a note (p. 304) there is
no reason to suppose that the canons of Beverley were
particularly hard drinkers. It was of the copiousness of
their food rather than of their drink that Fulk Basset
and others complained. They were probably only selected
because the word Bever in Norman-French, from which
boire is a corruption, suggested drinking, and Bevers was
a regular term for a set drinking time.*" Thus in the
Promptorium Parvulorum is given " Bever. Drinkinge tyme,
Biberrium." Marlowe in Faustus talks of "30 meals a day
and 10 bevers." At Winchester until about 1860 there was
still an interval in afternoon school from 4.30 to 5 p.m. called
"Bevers," though beer had ceased to be served during it;
and at Eton the beer itself survived, and was only abolished,
according to Sir Henry Maxwell Ly te's History of Eton College,
in 1890. In a case reported in the Times, 26 Nov., 1891, at
Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire, a witness said (e when he
passed by Brewer's Hill Farm he called for * beaver/ which
he explained as ( bread, beer, and cheese/ " So we may
absolve Hugate and his brethren of any real charge of ex-
cessive drinking. The further point in the Order of Fair
Base taken from the Canons Secular at large, with no par-
ticular reference to Beverley, that they were to pay particu-
lar attention to the ladies, is due no doubt not to their being
more given to running after the female sex than most clerics,
but to their being as it were men about town, courtiers, and so
on, and therefore more attractive to ladies (dames) properly
so called.
On 24 June, 1338, Provost Hugate died — apparently at
Beverley. His will, the date of which is not given, but it
was proved on 1 3 July, is set out at full length in the Chapter
Act Book (p. 123 seq.}. He directed his body to be buried
in the Minster, and gave £100 (= £2,000) to be spent at his
funeral on " lights and other necessaries " and the poor. He
gave a mark to every house of friars in the county of York
which he could think of, and as he thought of them, these
* Winchester Word-Book. By R. G. K. Wrench. 1901. See the N, E. D.
*»y. Bever.
Ix PROVOST HUGATE'S CHANTRIES.
gifts being spotted about all over the will ; the Preaching
Friars and Friars' Minors of Beverley being duly remembered
among them. Bach vicar choral of the Minster received 3s.,
each deacon, sub-deacon, and acolyte 2s. The same gifts
were made to York Minster. To each Minster he gave a
palfrey (palafridum) or 10 marks sterling, £6 13s. 4d. ; this
was the customary and compulsory gift of a canon, in the
nature of a mortuary ; to Lincoln Cathedral and S. Martin's
le Grand, where he was also a canon, 10 marks and 100s.
respectively. The church of his native place, Huggate, was
given 5 marks with a new missal with music, a tropar and a
great breviary of the use of York, while the parish chaplain
received a mark and the parish clerk 3s.
Eelations received little. His sister Alice was given £20
and the silver-plated cups, 4 cows and 100 sheep, and her
daughter Margaret 5 marks, a piece of plate, 2 cows, and
6 silver spoons. The three daughters of Nicholas Oobay,
one of whom was named Aline, received 20s. and a cow each.
But the whole of the other legacies do not amount to the
enormous sum of £200 (— £4,000) given to hire 60 chaplains
to sing daily for a whole year commendation and the evening
(Placebo) and morning (Dirige) offices for the dead for his
soul.
At York he made a less extensive but more permanent
provision by a perpetual chantry. He had license in
mortmain in 1331 to acquire lands to the value of £20 a
year for six chaplains for a chantry for his soul. Dying
before anything was done, on 22 Dec., 1338, his exe-
cutors obtained a renewal of the license ; but this was com-
muted for a license 3 Feb., 1340, for a house granted to the
Vicars of York Minster for the chantry. It was at the altar
of S. James, and was only worth £3 6s. 8d. a year in 1548.*
At Beverley too, besides the 60 priests for a year pro-
vided by the will, Hugate seems to have made provision
for a chantry of Corpus Christi "in the charnell," though
it was only carried out by his executor, John of Wilton,
long afterwards. License in mortmain was granted in 1348,f
* Yorkshire Chantries, II. 33. Surtees Society,
f Inq. ad quod damnum, 22 Edward III., No. 34.
PROVOST HUGATE'S MONUMENT. Ixi
but it was not till 23 June, 1352, that the foundation was
completed by a grant to the Chapter, still extant among the
Town Records of Beverley ."* Houses in Highgate, Fish-
mark et-morgate, and Keldgate, Beverley, for a chaplain to
celebrate at an altar to be constructed in honour of Corpus
Christi either at the north side of S. James' altar or at the
head of the tomb of S. John of Beverley or elsewhere with
the consent of John of Wilton. The appointment of the
chaplain was vested in the Warden and Brethren of the
Corpus Christi Gild, a gild consisting wholly of priests, one
of the earliest of Corpus Christi gilds in England, the ordi-
nances f of which date from about 1330, and were probably
therefore made under the superintendence of Hugate.
I believe that we may still look on the features of this, the
first Provost, who is (now for the first time) known to have
been buried in Beverley Minster, in the figure of the priest
in gorgeous vestments embroidered with shields of arms
which now lies on a beautifully carved tomb J on the east
side of the north transept. This splendid figure is not in its
original place. It was at one time identified § with George
Percy, a canon of Beverley, about a century later, sixth son
of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, on the strength
of a statement of Leland's (p. 345) that " under Eleanor's ||
tomb lies buried one of the Percys, a prest." Leland cannot
be referring to the existing so-called " Percy Shrine," either
as regards Eleanor Percy or as regards George. George
Percy it cannot be, for he directed his body to be buried
"in the north aisle by the tomb of Lady Eleanor Percy,"
his mother, who died between 14 Nov. and 9 Dec., 1474.^
The Percy shrine is not in the north aisle, but in the choir
itself. The architecture of the " shrine," as of our monument
is not that of 1474 but of 1340 ; a date which exactly fits
Nicholas Hugate. Of the 18 shields of arms engraved on
* Thence printed by me in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, xv. 103-
f Ibid. p. 116, from Public Record Office. Chancery Guild Certificates, No. 445.
J Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, 1796, plate cxiv. p 312.
§ Poulson, p. 695. Oliver, p. 323.
|| " Eleanor, wife to one of the Lord Percys."
^ Surtees Society, Test. Ebor. iii. 210 ; 14 Nov. date of will ; 9 Dec* date of
probate. The will refers to Lady Eleanor as his mother.
Ixii WAS HTJGATE ONE OF THE MAULEYS ?
the figure, only one, a lion rampant, can by any possibility
be attributed to the Percies, while there are none of the
Percy badges.* To what family Nicholas of Hugate be-
longed I have not had time to ascertain. The manor of
Huggate is not far from Pocklington, on the Wolds, in the
East Riding. The Mauleys were lords of it, and it was in
1333 1 in possession of Isabel de Brideshale, no doubt BridsalL
In 1235 Archbishop Gray J granted land in Gouthorp, which
he had of the gift of Nicholas de Hugate and Adeline his wife.
This may afford a clue, taken together with some of the un-
identified shields. The top shield on the maniple shows a
bend, and has been said to be a Scrope shield, the famous
azure, a bend or ; but the Mauleys adopted with the heiress
of the Fossards, lords of Mulgrave, or, a bend sable. The
second shield, a manch, is said to be Hastings; but the
Mauleys' original coat was vair, an arm manched gules.
Somewhere the arms should be found of Nicholas of
Hugate, Treasurer of Edward III. when Prince of Wales,
King's Receiver in Gascony, Keeper of the Wardrobe,
canon of York, Lincoln, S. Martin's-le-Grand, Wingham,
and Wolverhampton, besides being Provost and canon of
Beverley.
One wonders whether Hugate had committed crimes
beyond the common, perhaps in Gascony, or whether he
had a tenderer conscience or more superstitions than usual,
that he made such extensive provision for altars to Dis
Manibus, and required not a forty but a sixty parson power
to keep him out of the fires of purgatory. It is satisfactory
to learn that after this tremendous sacrifice for his dwelling
in the next world he left one of his mansions in this world,
the prebendal mansion of S. James, in a good state of repair,
having received it almost in ruins. Anthony of Goldesborough
succeeded him in the prebend (p. 120).
The next Provost was William de la Mare, collated by
The Old Heraldry of the Percys," by W. H, Longstaffe, Archaeologia
va, new series, iv. 170.
f Calendar Inquisitions post mortem, 17 Edw. II., No. 71. J Reg. p, 247*
PROVOST WILLIAM DE LA MARE, 1338-60. Ixiii
the Archbishop,* 24 June, 1338. Of him, not being in
the service of the King like most of the former and later
Provosts, nothing has hitherto been known. He seems,
like his uncle, Archbishop Melton, in whose service he
was, to have come from Melton-on-Humber. The recently-
published calendars of Papal Registers and Patent Rolls
enable us partially to trace his career, although some
care has to be used to prevent confusion with others of the
same name. For instance, he can hardly be the William de
la Mare who appears as proctor of Melton when admitted
Provost 28 April, 1308 (i. 227, 232), and of his successor on
a like occasion (i. 344) . On the other hand, he is the William
de la Mare who appears in the Papal Registers almost im-
mediately after Melton's accession to the archbishopric, as
"provided" by the Pope 27 July, 1318, at the Archbishop's re-
quest, with the " perpetual portion" of Osmotherley (Osmun-
delby) in the diocese of York. This is said to have been void
by the cession of Ralph de Erghom, who had held it in plurality
without dispensation. That is, the Archbishop turned out a
man for a breach of the canon law to put in his nephew, who
by canon law had still less right to hold it, for at the time he
was just 16 years old. This appears from a further Papal
provision made on 16 May, 1321, for William de la Mare of
a canonry in York Minster with reservation of a prebend and
dispensation to hold it, though only ]9 years old. That is,
he was made a canon of York at large, without emoluments,
with the right to claim a prebend when one should fall
vacant. There are many examples of this at Beverley in our
Chapter Act Book.
He is called William de la Mare of Melton when, on Valen-
tine's Day, 1319,t he was fourth of the witnesses to a deed
executed at Thorp, i.e. Bishopthorp, the Archbishop's manor,
the first being the Archbishop himself, the second Mr. Richard
of Melton, rector of Brandsburton, and the third Sir Richard of
Melton, rector of Gilling. By this deed John, son of Geoffrey
Neucomen of Wyntryngham, released to Philip of Wyntryng-
* Reg. Melton, f. 118, 8 Kal. Jul. He is described as magister and as canon
of York.
t Cal. Close Rolls, 12 Edw. II. m. 13 and 14 Feb. 131f enrolled next day.
Ixiv TREASURER OF YORK, 1329-33.
ham, dwelling in Melton by Humber, his uncle, his rights in
certain lands in Melton, presumably Melton family property.*
He is probably the William de la Mare who was a commissioner
for sewers for the river Don and Isle of Axholme (Haxiholm)
on 4 May, 1328, and was again a commissioner on 28 Aug.,
1 333, to discover who had been poaching by taking fish during
the close season on the Ouse, between the Humber and Aire.
He is certainly the Treasurer of York Minster whom Le Neve
records as appointed in 1329 and succeeded in 1330 by a
Eoman Cardinal.t The Patent Rolls on 28 July, 1329, refer
to him as Treasurer of York. The Papal Register explains.
On 1 April, 1330, Pope John XXII. at Avignon provided
Peter, Cardinal of S. Stephen's on the Coelian Hill, to the
Treasurership of York, about which, says the Bull, there
had been a suit between Walter de Bedewynde and Francis
Caetani, probably a son of the Cardinal S. Marias in Cosmedin,
who appears in our Act Book as Gaytanus, on the elec-
tion of the Archbishop of Bordeaux as Pope Clement V. (i.
76). Bedwind died before the suit was over, and Francis
Caetani, though a Papal chaplain, announced his intention of
marrying (and eventually did so), whereon the Pope reserved
all his ecclesiastical benefices to himself. The Pope states
that William de la Mare is " said to hold " the office of
Treasurer, notwithstanding which and notwithstanding Francis
Caetani having placed his rights under the suit in the Arch-
bishop's hands, and notwithstanding any other impediment,
Peter the Cardinal is to be made Treasurer. A year later, how-
ever, 15 Aug., 1331, the Bishops of Winchester, Worcester, and
Itherius de Concoreto,J canon of Salisbury, who was a Papal
agent much beneficed in England (he appears in the Chapter
Act Book on 6 Nov., 1330, as rector of Elveley (Kirk Ella), and
was one of the leaders of the conspiracy against the payment
of thraves to Beverley Minster), were directed to summon
William de la Mare to appear and produce all documents
concerning the Treasurership. In this new Bull he is said to
have disregarded the Papal mandate in favour of Cardinal
Peter, and fco have ill treated those who came to execute it ;
* Cal. Close Rolls, Edw. II.
f Fasti Ecclesice Anglicance.
\ He appears as Ichorius in the Chapter Act Book, and I suspect Itherius of
being a misreading of the Papal Register.
PROVOST WILLIAM DE LA MARE.
thereby, incurring excommunication. This Bui! again was
a brutum fulmen, as in February, 1333, a new Bull issued to
the Bishops of Winchester and Salisbury and Itherius de
Concoreto to sequestrate the Treasurership; and this was
followed by another on 7 March of the same year to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Winchester, and
Conquereto (sic), saying that the Bishop of Winchester had
been unable to act alone. John of Sandal being a friend and
colleague of Archbishop Melton, was perhaps unwilling to
act against him. As nothing more appears, it may be assumed
that the Cardinal got the Treasurership at last; but it is
pleasing to find our future Provost thus able to hold out
against this piece of Papal presumption for more than three
years.
As Provost, de la Mare only appears in one transaction
affecting Beverley in the Chapter Act Book, and that one
shows him as following the example of his uncle, the Arch-
bishop, in looking after his relations. On 7 April, 1340
(p. 133), Mr. William of Cottam (Cotum) appeared in
Chapter and produced a letter of William de la Mare,
Provost, to the Chapter, reciting that the office of goldsmith
of the Minster and the corrody attached to it was vacant by
the death of " John of " — the MS. is defective here —
and was in the Provost's collation, so he had appointed his
brother, Richard de la Mare, to the same. The goldsmiths
had by this time apparently become a sinecure and non-
resident office. For though John the Goldsmith on 2 June,
1305 (i. 50), reported that there had been a waste of
£10 14s. of the silver delivered to him for making S. John's
shrine, yet it seems doubtful whether he was the official
goldsmith in receipt of the official salary, since on 20 Jan.,
1305, a monition was directed to the goldsmith as well as
to the mason to come into personal residence, and this was
addressed on 27 Feb. to Henry Maynel (i. 55) or Moingvil
(i. 156), and the Archbishop on 21 Sept., 1306, wrote to
the Chapter not to proceed against him to compel him " to
come and make phials and incense burners and other eccle-
siastical ornaments, as he was in the Archbishop's daily
service, anxious and laborious, with the King at Hexham."
One of the reforms of Archbishop Arundel (p. 275) was to
EXCHANGES PROVOSTRY FOR WALTHAM, LINCS.
abolish the offices of the goldsmith, mason, and bellmaker,
the Chapter undertaking their duties. William de la Mare's
letter is dated at Cawood, one of the Archbishop's manors, so
that he was no doubt just as much in the court of the Arch-
bishop then as he had been before he became Provost.
On 12 Feb., 1342, William de la Mare, Provost of Beverley,
appears in the Patent Eolls as the first of four persons to
whom the custody of the temporalities of the see had been
assigned on the death of Archbishop William of Melton.
In 1344 and 1347 * he sued his bailiff, Thomas de Eyse, for
an account. In 1348 f the Prior of Bridlington was called
on J to acquit John de G-emelyng of certain services due to
Provost William de la Mare for a tenement held of the priory.
In 1343 and 1349 he was the recipient of Papal mandates
under the title of Canon of York. In 1358 § he received a
handsome bequest from his brother Thomas, who held the
vicara.ge of Welwick in the Provost's gift and was a canon of
York, in the shape of 6 silver dishes, with 6 saltcellars, and
6 silver spoons, a falcon, and 2 silver pots and 2 chargers
(chargeours) of silver. The Calendars of the Patent Eolls
for the later years of de la Mare's Provostry not having yet
appeared, further information about his career is not forth-
coming. He brought his Provostry to an end himself in
1360 by exchanging it with Eichard of Eavenser for the
rectory of Waltham in the diocese of Lincoln. ||
There has been great uncertainty about the date of
Provost Eichard of Eavenser. Poulson puts his appoint-
ment in 1347, Dugdale in 1360, and Oliver in 1365. Torre's
unpublished list rightly gives 4 Oct., 1360, the date of the
Archbishop's consent to the exchange with de la Mare.
Like his immediate predecessor Eavenser was a Yorkshire-
man from the East Eiding, from the once flourishing seaport
of Eavenser, near the mouth of the Humber, now beneath the
* Yorkshire Archceol. Soc. Record Series xvii. 7-8, from De Banco Rolls,
f Hil. 15 Edw. III. m. 193 d, and East. 21 Edw. III. m. 16.
% Ibid, from De Banco Roll, Hil. 22 Edw. III. m. 212.
§ Surtees Society. Test. Ebor. i. 68, dated 26 Sept., proved 20 Oct., 1358.
l| Reg. Thoresby, f. 46 d. Letter from John, Bishop of Lincoln, to Archbishop
Thoresby, 1 Oct., and consent of Archbishop, 4 Oct., 1360.
PROVOST RICHARD OF RAVENSER, 1360-9.
sea waves. He was a King's clerk, but was closely connected
with two Queens. In 1358 he was administrator of the
estates of the Queen-mother Isabella. He was afterwards
Privy Purse to Queen Philippa, whom he regarded as his
special patron.
In 1857 he was Clerk to the Hanaper, and as such in 1363
ordered to move the Chancery Eolls from the Tower to keep
them safe till the chests were repaired.* He was a Master
in Chancery from 1362 to his death in 1386. He first
emerges into canonries in 1359, when he acquired the pre-
bend of Welton Brinkhall in Lincoln Cathedral. The same
year he became Archdeacon of Norfolk, but only for a year.
In 1361, 15 Sept., the King gave him the prebend of Hoxton
in S. Paul's, and on 13 Nov. that of Wellington in Hereford.
Becoming Provost of Beverley in 1360, it was not till 1361,
25 June, that a Papal provision to a prebend there was
asked for by the King for him. It seems doubtful whether
he actually obtained a prebend till 16 Sept., 1363, when he
exchanged his Lincoln prebend with Eoger of Nassington
for that of S. Martin, Beverley, which Nassington had held
ever since 1325 (p. 75). A month after he obtained another
prebend at Lincoln, that of Empingham, which he held till
1384. In 1364 he was Master of S. Leonard's Hospital,
York. In 1368 he succeeded no less a person than William
of Wykeham as Archdeacon of Lincoln.
On 1 Oct., 35 Edward III., i.e. 1361 (p. 325), the King
confirmed and renewed to his beloved clerk Eichard of
Eavenser, Provost of Beverley, a charter of King John, to
the effect that any possessions which had been alienated
from the Provostry might be recovered by judgment in the
Provost's Court ; and this in spite of non-user.
In 1365 t he was still Provost, as there is extant a receipt
by him to Alan Bell, parson of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire,
Eeceiver of the Bedern, for £20, part of £30 19s. 7d. due to
Eavenser from a previous receiver of the Bedern.
How, why, or when he ceased to be Provost is not
ascertained. It was probably by exchange with Adam de
Lymbergh, the next Provost, about 1369.
* Close Rolls, 34 Edward III. m. 83.
t Brit. Mas. Lansd. Ch. 319.
Ixviii PROVOST RAVENSER'S CHANTRIES.
Eavenser retained his prebend, and does not seem to have
lost his interest in Beverley.* For on 20 Oct., 1377, for 60s.
paid by the King's clerks, Eavenser, Walter of Skirlaw, and
Eobert of Beverley, a license in mortmain was granted for
gifts in aid of S. Michael's chantry, lately founded. On
1 July, 1378, another license was granted for the alienation
to Eichard of Eavenser, canon of Beverley, of two-thirds
of the manor of Bentley, and the reversion expectant on
the death of Joan, widow of Thomas of Bentley, knight,
of the other one-third, the whole yearly value of the manor
being £8 ; and finally, on 20 Oct., 1380, for 40s. paid by
Eavenser, a further license was granted to him and Walter
Skirlaw., then Archdeacon of the East Eiding, for grant of
three messuages in Beverley to the chaplain at S. Michael's
altar. The second license sets out that the chantry was to
be for two chaplains to pray for the soul of Eavenser, the
two Queens, Isabella and Philippa, Edward III., and others,
and was in part satisfaction of a license by King Edward III.
up to £10. lu the British Museum the title deeds of this
chantry are preserved, including a grant, 10 May, 137l,t
by John of Eavenser and others, who are clearly trustees,
to John of Bentley of a rent of £10 out of two-thirds of the
manor of Bentley, which they hold by grant of John of
Bentley, if they omit to provide a chaplain in Beverley
Minster for the King, John of Bentley, Beatrice his mother,
and Thomas of Grauntsone his brother, Queen Isabella, and
Queen Philippa, for a year, and within that time to convey
the two-thirds and one -third in mortmain.
It is not a little mysterious how this manor of Bentley had
to be purchased again for the use of the Minster, seeing that
in Domesday Book it appears among the possessions of the
Chapter, value temp. Edward the Confessor 20s., but then
waste, while as we have already seen it was regranted to the
Minster by the Earl of Lincoln in King Stephen's reign.
Probably it was one of those very alienations for which
Eavenser had obtained a confirmation of John's charter,
enabling him to recover them by decree of his own Provostry
Court, a curious contravention of the dogma against a man
* See below under Adam de Lymbergh.
f Lansd. ch. 425.
HAVENSER'S ALMSHOUSES. Ixix
being judge in his own cause. Once regained by Eavenser
it remained in the possession of the Chapter as part of its
fabric fund to the end. It was worth in 1450* £60 a year,
but this included a heavy and no doubt exceptional fall of
timber worth £22 odd, and the net income from land was
only about £20. There were three chantry chaplains sup-
ported out of it, two celebrating for the soul of Eavenser
and one for Lady Idonea Percy, while a payment of £3 6s. 8d.
was made to the chaplain of S. Katharine's Chantry, "antiently
founded in the said church, but now gone to decay."
Eavenser also founded a hospital or almshouse at Beverley
for a master or chaplain and twelve poor men, of which the
community or corporation of Beverley, the burgesses, were
the trustees, the license being dated 3 July, 1378 ; while in
1380, 28 Nov., he obtained another license for a similar
hospital and chantry chaplain in Trinity Church, Hull, the
endowment of which was vested in the Prior of Guisborough.f
Another chantry he founded in York in connection with
S. Leonard's Hospital, of which he was master, of which
Fountains Abbey was made trustee, 13 April, 1380. The
manor of Stretton, near Lincoln, was acquired for the arch-
deaconry of Lincoln from the Earl of Angus, 9 Nov., .1380,
for obit in the cathedral and twelve poor in S. Giles Hospital
there : by license of 10 July, 1383, grants were made for
S. Edmund's chantry in the old hospital of Spital-in-the-
Street, near Lincoln ; and by his will, made 17 May, 1386, J
he founded another chantry.
By his will he gave £20 to the Minster if he died in
Yorkshire, in which case he directed his burial to be in the
Minster. He did die in Lincoln, and was buried in Lincoln
Cathedral.
Of the next Provost, Adam de Lymbergh, Poulson merely
says " nothing certain is known." Oliver gives his date as
1370, and describes him as Constable of Burdegalia (which
* Beverley Minster Fabric Roll, in possession of the Town Council ; printed
by me in East Riding Antiquarian Society' 's Transactions for 1898-9, vol. vi.
p. 56, vol. vii. p. 1.
t Guisboro1 Cliartulary, ii. 276 and 287.
% Proceedings of Archceological Institute at Lincoln, 1848, p. 316.
VOL. II. /
1XX PROVOST ADAM OF LYMBERGH, 1369-73.
is Bordeaux) and one of the Privy Council, thus confusing
him with one of the same name who was either his father or
uncle. This elder Adam de Lymbergh, from Great Limber,
between Brigg and Grimsby in Lincolnshire, is described on
15 Nov., 13 10/* as King's clerk, and was allowed to hold in
plurality at the King's request the rectories of "Yrde-
burghe" (? Yarborough) and Rye. Other livings and
canonries at Chichester, Dublin, Lincoln followed. He was
Remembrancer of the Exchequer from 1311 to 1321, when he
became Constable of Bordeaux; from 1328 to 1331 he was
Privy Seal, and the Patent Rolls between those years are
full of grants "on the information of Adam de Lymbergb."
In 1331 he became Chancellor of Ireland, though from the
number of legal commissions on which he served in England,
particularly in Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire,
about the same time, it would not seem that he troubled
Ireland with his presence. On 9 Nov., 1334, he became a
Baron of the Exchequer.t He was dead on 18 April, 1339,
when the King presented to the living of Algarkirk, his
family living, by reason of his lands being in the King's
hands.
Our man first appears in the Patent Rolls as being
presented to the rectory of Addle (Adel), near Leeds, on
15 Sept., 1343,J by reason of the temporalities of the Prior
of Holy Trinity, York, being in the King's hands as an alien
priory during war with France. On 1 Dec. the same year
he acted as attorney in a case in Banco of Rex v. F. Chamber-
lay >n, but for the defendant, not for the King, and a few
days later appeared for a defendant in an action brought by
the Prior of Bolyngton.
Whether he was related to one Tidemann de Lymbergh,
" merchant of Almain," who in 1343 and 1344§ was much
concerned in loans to the King, who had pawned his jewels
and "great crown" for £8,062 1 Os., or to Robert de Lymbergh,
who assisted the Dean of Lincoln to rescue a man on his way
to execution and was pardoned for it, 10 May, 1343, does
* Cal. Pap. Reg. t Foss, iii. 469.
J This and other references, when not otherwise mentioned, are from the
Calendars of Patent Rolls.
§ Cal. Pat. Rolls.
ADAM OF LYMBERGH ALIAS COOK. Ixxi
not appear,, but it seems probable. His family name seems
to have been Cook, since on 10 July, 1383, having entered
without license from the Crown, on a croft in Great Limber,
one John Harrison, for obtaining a grant of it from his
heiress, Beatrice,, daughter of Robert Cook, of (Great)
Lymbergh, brother of Adam, late canon of Lincoln, deceased,
paid half a mark for pardon. Cook may of course have been
the professional and not the family name of Lymbergh's
brother.
On 8 May, 1350, the Pope * confirmed him in the prebend
of Sixty Shillings in Lincoln Cathedral, and 21 June, 1315,
Mary de S. Paul, Countess of Pembroke, obtained a Papal
dispensation for her Council, including Adam de Limburgh,
to hold benefices in plurality. It is doubtful when he
became and how he became Provost, whether by Papal
provision or royal appointment, or in the normal way by
collation by the Archbishop. The probabilities are against
normality, as the Archbishops' Registers at York do not
appear t to contain any record of collation or institution.
Simon Russell mentions " Magister Adam de Lymbergh"
(p. 306) as Provost between Richard of Ravenser and the
venerable and circumspect man Mr. John of Thoresby.
Three documents connect him with Beverley. Two of themj
are mere mentions of him as Provost in suits relating to
property of the Provostry. A more serious document§ is a
commission by the Crown, 15 July, 1371, to the Archbishop
(Thoresby) and the King's household (familiari) clerk,
Richard of Ravenser, Archdeacon of Lincoln. " Not without
disturbance of mind" has the King heard f;that Adam of
Lymbergh, now Provost, not knowing the efficacious and real
meaning of his title, who ought to preside over and profit
(praeesse pariter et prodesse) the said church, takes away from
the canons, clerks, servants, and other ministers of the church
* Cal. Papal Petitions.
t Mr. W. Brown was kind enough to search the Kegisters for me, but in
vain.
J Yorkshire Monastic Notes (Yorks. Archaeol. Soc. Record series), p. 8, from
De Banco Rolls, Easter, 44 Edw. III. m. 2 b, and Easter, 45 Edw. III. In the
latter he sued John de Boythorpe for cutting down trees at Walkington worth 100*-.
§ Beverley Documents from the Record Office, by W. Brown. E. R.
Antiquarian Society, 1897, p. 36, from Pat. 45 Edw. III. pt. ii. m. 30.
/2
Ixxii MALADMINISTRATION BY LYMBERGH.
their vital sustenance and converts their common and daily
food to his own use, . . . whereby it happens that some
beneficed canons, vicars, clerks (etc.), leading a life of
poverty, are too weak to undertake divine service there, and
so divine worship is diminished and the right of the church
and its ministers contrary to all right depreciated." The
King Ci knowing that the provisions, goods, and rents of the
Provostry were in no small degree increased by the industry
of you, Richard, who long ruled over the Provostry profit-
ably and laudably, and which are now so abundant that they
are more than sufficient for supporting the ancient charges
on the same, especially for the daily and continuous main-
tenance of the canons," etc., commits to the Archbishop and
Eavenser, "having confidence in their knowledge of the
law," his office. They are to call the Provosn before them
and examine him and compel him to " pay and satisfy the
portion or distribution made to each of the canons and others
every day in bread, beer, meat, fish, and other victuals,"
with power to take away the possessions set aside for meet-
ing these charges.
The result does not appear. But it was probably in con-
sequence of the proceedings under this commission that
Adam of Lymbergh's Provostry ceased by his removal or
resignation.
John of Thoresby succeeded Adam of Lymbergh. Poulson
and Oliver identify him with his uncle, the Archbishop of
the same name, who had been of the usual type of King's
clerks, Master of the Bolls 1341, Privy Seal 1345, Chan-
cellor from 16 June, 1349, to 27 Nov., 1356, Bishop of St.
David's 1347, of Worcester 1349, Archbishop of York 22 Oct.,
1352, died 6 November, 1373. To fit in the dates^Oliver
makes the Archbishop not die in 1373 but retire to the
Provostry "weary of the labours and vicissitudes of a
public life," which weariness did not, however, prevent his
being Privy Seal in 1376 and Provost for 14 years after-
wards. The Provost was of quite a different stamp to his
uncle. He was not an active lawyer and ["civil servant,
but an Oxford Professor. In 1353 the Papal Petitions show
John, archbishop-elect, asking for and obtaining a prebend
PROVOST JOHN OF THOftESBY, 1373-80. Ixxiii
at Lichfield for his nephew John de Thoresby, B.C.L. In
1363 William Willis, esquire of the Kings of England and
of Cyprus, asked for the church of Brantingham for him,
and in 1364 Thoresby obtained a dispensation to hold it
without residing, he being a doctor of civil law, who, after
his doctorate, had continued for some years to lecture in the
University on civil and canon law. He is no doubt rightly
identified by Dr. Fowler* with Mr. John Thoresby, who
7 March, 1361, was one of Archbishop Thoresby's com-
missioners to visit Ripon Minster ; but the notary public who
in 1329 was directed by Archbishop Melton to induct William
of Popelton into the Hospital of S. Mary Magdalen, Ripon, is
quite certainly not the same, but perhaps Archbishop Thoresby
himself. The vicar of Oundle, 1343-7, is certainly the Arch-
bishop, not the Provost. On 7 Sept., 1367, our man was given
the prebend of Grindal in York Minster. On 19 Dec., 1370,
he exchanged with another Oxford man, John Turk, fellow
of Merton, his prebend of Offley at Lichfield for that of
Nun wick at Ripon.t On 22 Nov., 1371, he obtained from
Gregory IX. a Papal dispensation to hold a benefice in
Durham diocese,^ value 50 to 60 marks a year, notwith-
standing his prebends in York and Ripon and church of
Lilleford of the value of 80 marks a year. He is described
as " our Chancellor " in a commission by his uncle to visit
Guisboro' Priory 22 Jan., 137f.§
On 20 April, 1373, Mr. John of Thoresby, LL.D., was col-
lated by the Archbishop to the Provostry, and was ordered
to be inducted by delivery of our biretta (per biretti nostri
tradicionem) . A month or two later he obtained from the
Pope a confirmation of the Provostry which he had been
given on a vacancy caused by Adam de Lymbergh, and now
doubts whether it was reserved to the Pope, presumably
because Lymbergh had received it from the Pope. The
confirmation was only granted on condition that Lymbergh
* Memorials of Ripon, ii. 194, where the date of the commission is wrongly
given as 1356, see p. 127.
f Ibid. ii. 193, from Reg. Thoresby. f. 78 a.
J Meaning Brantingham, which though in the East Riding, was in the
patronage of Durham.
§ (hiixboro1 CJtartiilary, ii. 406. Surtees Society, No. 89.
Ixxiv PROVOST THORESBY'S DEATH.
was not a member of the Papal household, and that Thoresby
resigned Lilleford church on getting the Provostry. This
Papal confirmation was probably a wise precaution, as very
soon afterwards his uncle the Archbishop died, the Provost
being an executor of his will,* dated 12 Sept., 1373.
The earliest mention of Thoresby as Provost is a notice
of his intention to visit the Provostry, preserved in Simon
Russell's book, apparently as a good common form (p. 329).
A translation of it is given by Poulson,t and the date,
1 Richard II., i.e. 1377, which date should have saved him
from confusing the Provost with the Archbishop, who had
died, on his own showing, four years before. In point of fact
Simon Russell gives the date by the year of the Lord, 1377.
The Patent Rolls exhibit Thoresby as an active Provost ;
obtaining for a fine of 100s. an Inspeximus of all the charters
of the Provostry, 10 Feb., 1378 ; and on 3 July, 1379, getting
a commission of oyer and terminer against the parson of
Patrington, who had stolen his boat, value £20, afc Fris-
marsh, hunted his warrens, fished his fisheries, and carried
away his hares, rabbits, partridges, and pheasants ; an early
instance surely of the mention of the latter. Thoresby was
dead by 3 Feb., 1380, when the King presented J to the pre-
bend of Nunwick at Ripon vacant by his death.
Whether by death he escaped from the wrath to come or
whether the wrath arose in consequence of the vacancy of the
Provostry caused by his death is not clear. Certain it is that
wrath like that of Achilles overtook the canons of Beverley
in the person of Alexander Neville almost immediately
after his death. The epic which recited it is extant in the
Archiepiscopal Registry at York in the prosaic shape of a
statement of facts compiled for the Archbishop on appeal to
the Pope, and is printed here at full length (pp. 205-265). §
In the epic fashion it plunges into the middle of the fray.
* Surtees Society, Test. Ebor. i. 88.
t Beverlac, p. 555.
J Mem. Itipon> ii. 194.
§ A full account of it in English with a copy of the most interesting document
in it, an early Ordinance of the Bedern, was given by me to the Society of
Antiquaries in 1894 under the title of A Clerical Strike at Beverley Minster,
Archaologia, Iv. pt. i.
ARCHBISHOP NEVILLE AND CANONS.
Ostensibly the story begins innocently enough in a notice by
the Archbishop on 2 March, 1381 (p. 202), that he intends
to hold a visitation, appointing Mr. Ralph of Selby his legal
assessor. That there was something more intended than a
mere visitation is clear from the Archbishop's thinking it
necessary at once to publish a " Letter Patent to remove fear,"
informing every one that he was not going to interfere with
the canons and others in any way going to or coming from
the visitation, and was only going to refresh their souls.
This notice was published by his suffragan, the Bishop of
Dunk eld, in S. Nicholas' Church (the Scotch and Irish bishops
were nearly always in England doing duty as curates for their
English brother-bishops, much as the Colonials do now, or
did a few years ago) . The canons seem to have known what
was intended, as they promptly published solemn protests
against the proceedings in S. Paul's Cathedral and S. Martin's,
Ludgate, appealing to the Pope.
In this appeal the Chapter set out several causes of
quarrel. The Archbishop had interfered with their private
jurisdiction, citing at very short notice the executors of Sir
Kobert of Beverley, late canon, though his will had been
duly proved before them, to appear before him in person,
which was dangerous because of the fierceness of the Arch-
bishop and his men (propter ipsius et suorum saevitiam et
timorem) ; and also interfering with their jurisdiction in
their prebends. Eichard of Kavenser, the ex-Provost, as
prebendary of S. Martin's, put in a separate appeal, alleging
that the Archbishop could only visit once during his arch-
bishopric, and asserting that he dare not go to Beverley, as
the Archbishop was notoriously his mortal enemy (capitalis
inimicus), and it was not safe for him, his proctors, or
messengers to go there. On this apparently the Arch-
bishop himself has written in the margin of the " Process "
in Latin : " Note — that your messenger came with this and
the Archbishop invited him to dinner, as he would have
invited you if you had come and your principal," i.e. Eavenser
himself.
In a third appeal, dated 23 March, 138-J, the Chapter
recited that " in the chapel of the chapter altar behind the
choir, notoriously exempt from his jurisdiction," the Arch-
CANONS OF BEVERLEY, 1381.
bishop had cited people to appear before him and his com-
missioners, e.g. in the case of the executors of Richard
Kyllyng, who had already proved his will before the
Chapter's auditor, and others named ; and had summoned
Margery, wife of Adam Cook of Beverley, of the exempt
jurisdiction of the Chapter, to purge herself of certain
charges ; had dismissed the Chapter's apparitor or summoner
from office and, deprived him of his wand (virgam) or mace
(baculum), which he carried before them; and, horrible to
relate, excommunicated and boycotted the chaplains of the
Chapter's jurisdiction; closed the choir doors through which
the canons and others used to pass ; and every way molested
them.
On 27 March these appeals were presented to the Arch-
bishop, who said he was not going to exceed his jurisdiction-
He entered the chapter house ; and, after a sermon by his
Official on the text "Visit this vine/' he proceeded to the
visitation. After due service of the summonses had been
proved, only Mr. Ralph Waleys, the Precentor, one " Ber-
fellar," and one chaplain appeared and took the oath
of obedience. The rest were pronounced contumacious,
and the visitation was adjourned. On the 29th the vicars
choral, being in the chapter house, were asked why they
refused to appear to the visitation, and said they dared not,
because of their masters, the canons, and left the chapter
house laughing (derisorie recesserunt). They and two
canons, Ravenser and Wellingborough (Wendlingburgh),
were cited to appear next day, and the rest of the canons
for 22 April. On Saturday the 30th four chantry priests
appeared, but no one else ; and the case was adjourned to
Monday, 1 April. That day two more chaplains came in, and
Ravenser was summoned to show cause why on 22 April he
should not be excommunicated. Next day one vicar and
four ministri came in. On 3 April Canons Nicholas of Louth
and Richard of Thome and three clerks appeared and took
the oath. The vicars said the canons had made them swear
not to obey the Archbishop. The visitation was adjourned
to the 5th, when it was announced that the vicars, having
been summoned to be excommunicated, had left the church
ARCHBISHOP AND KING. Ixxvii
unserved ; and next day it was found that " they had gone
towards London to bring opprobrium on the Archbishop."
The whole eight of them were therefore promptly excom-
municated. On 8 April the Archbishop had the service per-
formed by his own clerks, and three days afterwards sent for
vicars choral from York to fill the places of the refugees.
On 21 April the King's serjeant-at-arms arrived and
served the Archbishop in his manor house at Beverley with a
royal writ asserting the King's jurisdiction over Beverley as
a royal foundation, protesting against money being taken
out of the kingdom in an appeal to Rome, and calling the
case up before the Privy Council.
The Archbishop nevertheless next day proceeded with his
programme. A third canon, Richard of Chesterfield, appeared
and submitted, but Ravenser and Wellingborough were ex-
communicated. The three canons present confessed that the
statutory residence was not kept, and were commanded to
produce documents, which they did next day, the ordinance
of William Greenfield as to residence, and some Papal Bulls
of vague generality.
On 24 April the three canons again appeared and ' ' with
one voice and, as it were, one mouth, and with great insistence
besought the reverend father for reverence and the com-
mand of the Lord the King not to molest them any more
while the matter remained undetermined in the King's
Court." He only answered that the temporal courts had no
jurisdiction, that those who had obtained the King's writ
were ipso facto excommunicated, and he intended to proceed.
He accordingly repealed Archbishop Greenfield's ordinance
as to residence, which had been in force seventy years,
reviving that of Romanus, which had only been in force
eighteen years. The repeal was quite ultra vires, since the
ordinance had been made in chapter with the canons' consent,
and cculd only be altered or repealed in the same way. He
then commanded Ravenser and Wellingborough to be publicly
denounced as excommunicate. On 6 May a writ of super-
sedeas issued from Westminster commanding and entreating
the Archbishop to leave the canons alone till the matter
could be heard before the Council. The royal writ met with
Ixxviii RAVENSER AND HIS PREBEND.
small reverence.* " Sir Robert Eos, knight, of the King's
chamber,, and Richard Hembrigge, serjeant-at-arms, the
bearers of the royal writ, were met by the Archbishop with
a great multitude of the people of Beverley and its neigh-
bourhood, clad in hoods of his livery, given solely for the
purpose of maintaining his quarrel"— a criminal offence
against the Statute of Maintenance — " and would not suffer
Robert and Richard to perform the command of the King
and his Council, and so greatly menaced them that they dared
not for fear of death proceed in that business, as was well
proved afterwards before the King's Council." In the copy
of the writ which ends the Archbishop's " Register " this
turbulent proceeding is not noticed The Archbishop merely
wrote against it : " It is not the business of the temporal to
interfere with the spiritual court," and "the request is not just
and therefore cannot be granted." Here the Register ends.
What exactly happened we do not know. We knowt that
the Archbishop deprived Ravenser of his prebend, and
purported to invest Mr. Anthony de St. Quintin with it " by
delivery of our biretta " in the great chamber at Cawood on
31 August, 1381, in the presence of his Chancellor and of Sir
Geoffrey de St. Quintin, knight ; and as Nicholas of Louth
would not admit him the Archbishop himself did so in person
at Beverley on 2 September. But we learn from some Papal
letters referring to a claim by Ravenser's executors, 11 Nov.,
1388, that he had obtained two judgments against St. Quintin
at Rome with costs of 75 golden florins in one case and 68 in
the other, and an order of sequestration, and they then
demanded the fruits of the prebend. But the case was still
under trial before John, Bishop of Hereford, when Ravenser
died. Thomas of Ferriby, canon of Wells, appointed by the
King during the vacancy of York on Alexander Neville's
flight from a trial for high treason, had been " surrogated "
in Ravenser's place. Finally, on 1 Dec., 1389, Pope Boni-
face IX. sent the matter to J. de Dulman, Papal auditor, to
* Rolls of Parliament, iii. 183. Petition to the King in Parliament by five
vicars choral, one berefellar, and one chantry priest. The year is given as
7 Richard II., ie. 1383-4. But this must be wrong, as the petition refers to
Kavenser as dead, and he did not die till some day between 17 May, the date of a
codicil, and 1 June, 1386, the date of probate of his will. Archaeological
Institute at Lincoln, 1848, pp. 316 seq. t Reg. Neville, i. f. 65 b.
CANON JOHN OF WELLINGBOROTJGH.
assign the prebend to St. Quintin or Ferriby, with, a remark
which was apparently a hint in favour of the former that he
was of knightly family on both sides, and he might hold it
notwithstanding a prebend in York and a benefice in
Durham. On 8 March, 1390, the King collated John of
Ferriby. So, unless the Christian name is written John for
Thomas by mistake, neither St. Quintin or Thomas Ferriby
finally got the prebend, but a third party.
The loss of the prebend, rich as it was, must have been a
comparatively small matter to Ravenser among the multitude
of his other preferments, civil and ecclesiastical. But when
in 1382 he wished to visit S. Leonard's Hospital, York, of
which he was master, and his other Yorkshire preferments,
he had to obtain * the King's special protection for himself, his
clerks, esquires, and servants, visiting the hospital and his
benefices in Yorkshire, going and returning.
John of Wellingborough, Ravenser's co-excommunicate,
who held S. Mary's prebend, was also a King's clerk, and
was presented by the King, 15 Oct., 1380, to a prebend in
S. Stephen's, Westminster, held shortly before by his father
or uncle, John of Wellingborough the elder. He became a
claimant for the Provostry of Beverley, and on 7 June, 1383,
had the King's protection for his clerks and advocates going
to and from Beverley and Lincoln with regard to the suit
pending in the Roman Court between himself and Robert of
Manfeld, of whom hereafter, as to the Provostry. As late
as 1400,t 20 Dec., however, he thought it necessary to obtain
from the King a ratification of his estate in S. Mary's
prebend, Beverley, and the Wardenship of S. John Baptist
Chapel, Melton Mowbray, while the same year he received a
grant of 40 marks a year, apparently by way of retiring
pension, for his good services to Edward III. and Richard II.
in the high office of Privy Seal.
Of the rest of the canons, two died very shortly afterwards.
Henry of Snaith, who held the prebend of S. James, was
indeed probably already dead when the visitation began, as
his will is dated 3 Feb., 138£.J He appointed John (Bokyng-
ham), Bishop of Lincoln, and his brother canons, Ravenser,
* Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1382, 8 July. f Cal. Pat. Rolls.
I Surtees Society, Test. Ebor. i. iii. (H. f. 115 b.).
iXXX THE OTHER CANONS.
Skirlaw, and Richard of Chesterfield his executors. He also
was a King's clerk, and as early as 1364 held a prebend in
S. Stephen's, Westminster, and the rectory of Oundle,
Northants. His will shows him a canon of 8. Paul's, Lin-
coln, and Howden, as well as Beverley. The beautiful chapter
house of Howden, which still stands a ruin, was then building,
and he gave £10 to it ; while to Beverley he gave his cope
and £3 to the fabric. To Haddenham Church, of which he
was rector, he gave 100 marks (£66 13s. 4d.) for the great
window of five lights in the chancel.
William of Birstal, who held the prebend of S. Michael's,
also did not leng survive the storm, which could have hurt
him not at all, since, being a Master in Chancery, in 1371 he
had become Master of the Roils, and held the rich living of
Houghton, Durham. His tenure of the Rolls was noticeable
in that during it the Rolls House in Chancery Lane, then
known as the House of Converts, was first permanently
annexed to the office, 11 April, 1377.* His successor in
the office was appointed 8 Sept., 1381.
Of the other two, Walter of Skirlaw was already in 1377
a Master in Chancery, canon of York, and Dean of St.
Martin's-le- Grand, and at the time of the contest Sacrist or
Treasurer of Lincoln and Archdeacon of Northampton. A
year afterwards he was Privy Seal, and in 1385 Bishop of
Coventry and Lichtield, and died Bishop of Durham in 1403,
bequeathing £40 (£800) and a suit of vestments to Beverley
Minster.f
Nicholas of Louth was an Exchequer official and King's
Treasurer for Ponthieu when, 22 April, 1363, he obtained a
Papal provision for a canonry and prebend at Beverley ; J
being also canon of Salisbury and St. Asaph, and rector of
Cottingham, near Beverley, He built § the splendid church
there, and his portrait on a magnificent brass is still to be
seen in it. He died 3 June, 1383.
* Foss, iv. 38. He calls him Burstall. Bristall is another variant of the name,
f Surtees Society, Test. Elor. i. 306. J Cal. Pap. Registers.
§ The inscription begins :
Huius erat rector domus, hie Nicholaus humatus
Factor et erector, de Luda :
and adds later fenestram iiavis geminavit.
THE POPE V. THE PROVOST, 1389-98. IxXXl
To the canons, therefore, the outcome of the struggle with
the Archbishop, even if it extended to deprivation of their
prebends, meant only the loss of a little extra pocket money.
To the vicars choral it meant the loss of livelihood itself.
Richard of Eavenser, however, came to their rescue, and while
he lived, that is, for no less than five years, maintained them
at Lincoln. When he died they were " cast adrift and had to
become vagrants and mendicants " till the Archbishop, having
been impeached for high treason, fled the country in 1388.
Then five vicars, one berfellar, and one chantry priest,
who remained, applied to Parliament, and were reinstated.
So ended the great Beverley clerical strike. The constitution
of the minster was finally settled by Archbishop Arundel's
Statutes in 1391 (p. 265).
There is some uncertainty about the Provostry after the
death of Thoresby. Simon Russell gives Robert Manfeld,
in whose time he wrote, as the successor. Manfeld certainly
held possession in 1381, as a document in the Provost's
Book,* dated " A.D. 1381 beginning and 1382 ending"
(which seems like a slip, for the reverse) "relates to the
probate of a will in that year, viz. in the first year of Robert
Manfield as Provost."
Coming from Manfield, near Barnard Castle in the North
Riding, he was a King's clerk. In the absence of calendars
of the Patent Rolls for his early years, nothing is ascertained
of him till 12 July, 1386. Then he was granted for life "the
same estate and grade in Chancery which Richard of Ravenser
deceased, late one of the greater clerks f in Chancery, had."
So we may conclude that he was a Chancery official.
He had already received ecclesiastical preferment, being
ratified in his estate of the prebend of Wistow in York
Minster on 3 May, 1380, receiving a new grant of it on
7 June. On 18 Aug. of the same year he was given the
archdeaconry of Cleveland by reason of the temporalities
of York being in the King's hands. On 7 June, 1383,
protection was granted, as we have seen, for clerks and
advocates going between Beverley and Lincoln about the
suit at Rome between Manfeld and Wellingborough over the
* f. 74. + i.e. Masters in Chancery.
PROVOST ROBERT MA.NFELD, 1381-1422.
Provostry. On 26 Feb., 1386, the King gave him a prebend
in the royal chapel of S. Stephen's, Westminster. Why on
5 June he was suddenly committed to the Tower with Sir
John Bygot, knight, and others, and whether his promotion
to be a Master in Chancery, was compensation for this
disturbing experience, is a mystery which the Calendars of
Patent Eolls create but do not solve.
In the King's courts at least Manfeld was recognised as
Provost and got the fruits of the Provostry, as on 1 May,
1387, Thomas of Grimston, late bailiff of Beverley, was
pardoned an outlawry for not accounting to Manfeld as
Provost for the time when Thomas was receiver. On
12 June Manfeld was granted S. Michael's prebend by the
King, the temporalities of York being in the King's hands,
and next day received a ratification of his estate as Provost
and of the prebend of Skelton in Howden Collegiate
Church.
In 1388 Robert Manfeld, Provost, and Thomas Pounde,
the Sacrist appointed by him, successfully * defended the
right of the Provost to appoint the Sacrist against the King,
who claimed by reason of the temporalities being in his
hands, and had appointed one Edmund Altoun on 11 Feb.,
1387.
Yet on 21 June, 1389, a Papal mandate issued to the
Bishops of Durham and Hereford to give to Adam, cardinal
of S. Cecilia, the Provostry of Beverley whether it was void
by the death of John of Thoresby or by resignation of Adam
Spenser — this must be another name for Adam of Lymbergh
— made to Alexander, late Archbishop of York, or otherwise,
notwithstanding that the Cardinal was a Benedictine. The
Cardinal was a monk of Norwich called Adam of Easton, who,
having been sent in 1368 with a letter from Edward III. to
the Pope, managed to ingratiate himself with the Pope and
had secular benefices heaped on him in total disregard of
his monkhood, being made a canon of Lincoln with the
prebend of Aylesbury, Precentor of Lisbon, Archdeacon
of Shetland, rector of Rottesdene, Norfolk, and also Prior
* Yorkshire Monastic Notes, from De Banco Rolls Hil. 11 Ric. II. m. 112.
.and Cal. Pat. Rolls under dates given.
PROVOST MANFEKD'S PREFERMENTS. Ixxxiii
of the Benedictine house of S. Agnes, Ferrara. On
17 Jan., 1398, the Pope suddenly issued a mandate to the
Papal auditor to give the Provostry to Cardinal Adam.
It had come to the Pope's notice that the cause was still
pending with Robert Manfeld, while Christopher, Cardinal
Priest of S. Cyriac, said that the same Eobert had set at
defiance a Papal provision for himself of the prebend of
Ustwayt (i.e. Husthwaite) in York Minster, but he could not
get it by reason of Robert's power. So notwithstanding that
the cause did not properly pertain to the Roman Court, the
Pope committed the work to Nicholas, Bishop of Potenza.
The Papal auditor was directed to cite Manfeld by notice
posted on the doors of S. Peter's, Rome — a fine way of reach-
ing a Master in Chancery in London. Robert not appearing
was pronounced contumacious and excommunicate, and ipso
facto deprived of all his benefices, and disabled to hold them
or any other. The Provostry being thus void, the Pope ordered
the auditor to " surrogate " Cardinal Adam to it and to see
that he got it.
How Manfeld managed to get over this does not appear.
No doubt he found that Purse was the antidote to Curse in
case of the Pope as much as of an archdeacon. Perhaps the
casus belli was a contest of right between Pope and King, as
on 8 Feb., 1 39f , the Arcliiepiscopal Register * at York shows
us Mr. Robert Manfeld being admitted to the Provostry, and
also to the prebend of Husthwaite, York, in the King's gift,
by reason of the vacancy of the see.
Manfeld certainly continued to hold the Provostry, and
was no doubt assisted to do so by adhering to Bolingbroke
against Richard II. For on 30 Oct., 1399, he is described as
Warden of the Hospital or Free Chapel of S. Mary, South-
well, when presented to the Hospital or Free Chapel of
S. Giles, Little Maldon, Essex, on exchange with Alexander
Hale, who, described as parson of Leven, was presented on
7 Nov. to Midilton Church " in the immediate jurisdiction of
Robert Manfeld, Provost," while on 14 May following, when
the vacancy thus caused at Leven was filled, that church too
is described in the same terms. On 12 Nov. Manfeld obtained
* Reg. Newark and Sede cacante, f. 216.
PROVOST WILLIAM KINWOLMARSH, 1419.
a further grant from the King of S. John's prebend* in
Howden Collegiate Church. On 22 Nov., 1399, he obtained
from the new King Henry IY. a ratification of his estate in
the Provostry and S. James' prebend, and also in that of
Husthwaite in York and Christ Hall (Cristall) in St. Martin's-
le- Grand. On 1 March, 1400, Manfeld as Provost, for a fine
of £5, obtained a new charter confirming to the Provostry
and the canons and clerks of Beverley the charter of 10 Feb.,
1 Richard II., to John of Thoresby, confirming that of
30 Nov., 4 Edward III., to Nicholas of Hugate, which itself
confirmed former charters.
In Henry Y.'s reign we find Manfeld quietly asserting in
the Common Pleas the rights of the Provost to the marriage
of his tenants' sons.t Finally in 1417 Simon Russell states
(p. 308) that when he compiled his Provost's Book in Man-
f eld's time " the said Lord Provost stood in peace with the
Church and all its ministers, all corrodies and charges ordinary
and extraordinary being fully paid." So the Benedictine
monk, in spite of all the Pope's thunders, never obtruded his
unlawful presence into the Bedern of Beverley Minster.
A.t this time, besides the other preferments mentioned,
Manfield was also canon and prebendary of Brownswood in
S. Paul's and rector of Hackney, near London.
On 6 May, 1419, William Kynwolmersshe, clerk, was col-
lated by Archbishop Henry Bowet J to the Provostry vacant
by the death of Sir Robert Manfeld.
Here we must cease from lack of space to pursue the
Provosts through the purlieus of the law and the precincts of
the church in their preferments with the same particularity
as heretofore. Kinwoldmarsh, perhaps an East Riding man,
was Treasurer of the Exchequer under Henry Y. and reap-
pointed to the same office 30 Sept., 1422, on Henry YI.'s
accession, a month or two after which he died. Will proved
Feb. 6, 1422-3.
On 18 Dec., 1422, Mr. Robert Neville was collated, and
* This is interesting, as generally the prebends of Howden had territoria
names, Saltmarsh and so on.
t Tor Is. Mon. Notes, from De Banco Rolls, Trin. 1 Henry V. m. 98 d.
Mich. Ibid. m. 153 and 494. Hil. Ibid. m. 431 d and 432.
J Reg. Bowet, f. 67 b.
AND ROBERT NEVILLE, 1422. IxXXV
on 23 Dec. admitted Provost.* This fortunate youth, son of
the Earl of Westmorland of Shakespeare's Henry IV. and
uncle of the Kingmaker of Henry VI.'s time, at the age of 9
obtained a prebend in Auckland Collegiate Church, and at
the age of 10 another in York Minster. An M.A. of Oxford
at the age of 17, he obtained the coveted preferment of the
Provostry of Beverley, to hold it for five years only before
being made Bishop of Salisbury f by Papal dispensation,
being only 23 years old. 10 Oct., 1427, the temporalities
were delivered to him under the designation of Robert, late
Provost of Beverley. He afterwards J attained the bishopric
of Durham, where he ended a career undistinguished other-
wise than by the early age at which he attained the prizes
of his profession, and by leaving three children to perpetuate
his name. His sole connection with Beverley is that he is
said to have built a tower in the Bedern, which the writer
of his life in the Dictionary of National JJiography wantonly
guesses to have been the ancient site of the Minster. It
was, as we have seen, the ancient residence of the Minster
clergy, including the Provost.
The only act of Robert Neville which brings him into con-
nection with the Provostry is his defence of an action
brought by the Crown to have the corrody of the butler of
the Bedern during its vacancy on the death of John
Humbleton, the late butler, who died seised of it and of
divers manors and lordships ' ' in the King's hands by reason
of the minority of the heir." The office was of course a
sinecure or performed by deputy. The corrody was worth
£8 6s. 8d. a year, and consisted of two loaves every week
day and two loaves and half a simnel cake every feast day ;
22 gallons of beer a week, or three gallons a day, with one
to spare, " like one of the vicars or the six servants or
Serjeants (servientibus) of the fee," besides which he was to
have two "bevers" a day, namely "at noon and in the
evening § as much as he wished to drink." This enormous
supply of beer might perhaps to our ideas have given occasion
to the satirist of the order of Fair Ease did we not know that
* Poulson, p. 651. f 10 July, 1427. $ 27 June, 1438.
§ Ad noiiam et vesperam. This can hardly mean at nones and vespers.
VOL. II.
PROVOST ROBERT ROLLESTON, 1427-50.
instead of being exceptional it was the ordinary allowance in
such cases. Even the hundred old men who dined daily in
S. Cross Hospital by Winchester received three gallons a
day ; — unless indeed there is some mistake there, as here,
as to lagena, a flagon, meaning a gallon. At Beverley the
eatables were provided on quite as lavish a scale as the drink-
ables. The butler was allowed seven dishes, or portions
(ferculi) every week day and ten dishes every feast day, and
in Advent two pounds of cheese, and a special allowance
for blood-letting time, when he could not dine in hall. He
also had as perquisites the " dods " or ends of the 40 wax
candles which burnt in the Bedern every night from All
Saints' Day to 2 Feb., and the remains of the two great
candles used on the latter day, Candlemas Day.
Kobert Kolleston, priest, was collated to the Provostry
7 Dec., 1427.* He was a native of Beverley itself, where his
family, presumably from Kolleston, Notts, had long been
settled. In Trinity Term, 1363, Provost Richard of Ravenser,t
recovered in the Provostry Court by writ of tf Quare cessavit,"
(i.e. Why he ceased for two years to render due service) a
messuage in Beverley against William, son of Robert of
Rolleston, In 1369 Richard of Rolleston did homage to the
Provost J for lands in Sigglesthorne, and was one of the
suitors § in the Bedern Court for the same. William Rolleston
was senior of the 12 Keepers of the town in 1405, || when he
sold 3,000 tiles to the corporation for 8s. 4d. ; in 1407 he
paid 4d. for commonage of the lane behind his house in
Flemingate ; and was senior Governor in 1409. Most pro-
bably this William, son of Robert, was the father of Provost
Robert.
Robert Rolleston's private house, or at least a house
belonging to him, was in Newbigging, and he paid a rent of
18s. for part of it, which was situate on the common land of
the town, to the Governors of the town in 1435. His brother,
Roger Rolleston, merchant, was the senior of the 12 Gover-
* Reg. Kempe, f . 6.
t Provost's Book, f . 68, from De Banco Roll 96, 38 Edw. III.
t Ibid, f . 7 b. from the Provost's Court Rolls. § Great Gild Book, f . 8.
|| Town Account Rolls, 1405, 1407, 1409.
I
ROLLESTON, KEEPEK OF THE WARDROBE.
nors of the town (equivalent to mayor) no less than seven
times;— in 1423-4, 1428-9,* 1436-7, 1440, 14445, 14459,
1452-3 and 1456-7. In 1436 he was named first of the seven
armed men who received arms from the " community " for
an expedition to Scotland; in 1437-8 he went to London for
the town on a suit against the Prior of Bridlington. In 1448
he rode with four horses to receive Henry VI. ,t when he
visited Beverley, and made the shortest speech on record
tor such an occasion. " Most gracious Christian prince, our
sovereign lord, ye be welcome to your people and town of
Beverley." He was the Provost's executor in 1452 J and
made his own will § 3 August, 1458, proved 18 August, J and
directed his burial to be in the Minster before the image of
the Virgin above the red chest.
The Provost was an Exchequer official, and already
Keeper of the Wardrobe in 1421, || and reappointed to that
office on the accession of Henry VI. On 10 July, 1425,^[ he
is described as King's Clerk when presented to the prebend
of S Katherine at Beverley, vacant by the death of Thomas
Haxey, the temporalities of York being in the King's hands.
One of his first acts as Provost was, 13 March, 1428, to
obtain an inspection and confirmation of a charter of
25 Nov., 1415, to Robert of Manfield for the Provost and
canons of Beverley, inspecting and confirming all previous
charters of liberties. On 28 May, 1435,** a Privy Seal was
directed to the Governors of Beverley Town asking for a
loan of 200 marks to the King to meet the expenses of an
embassy to France, and meanwhile to keep the field with a
great army. The Governors thereupon wrote '' to the Right
Honourable and Worshipful Sir and Master the Provost of
Beverly," to beg them off, saying that three parts of the
freeholds in the town were in decay ; while by loss of the
sea and captures by enemies the merchandise sometime used
* Ibid. f. 45.
f Early Yorkshire Schools, 1. and p. 105. Town Account Rolls and Minute
Book, 1423-4, 1428-9, 1436-7, 1444-5, 1448-9, 1452-3, and 1456-7.
J Test. Ebor. ii. 139. § Ibid. 140 n.
|| Rymer's Feeder a, x. 159.
\ 19 Nov., 1422, he was a canon of S. Paul's, prebendary of Portpool. Lft Neve.
** Beeerley Town Records, Hist. MSS. Commission, p. 22.
Ixxxviii ROLLESTON'S CHANTRY OF s. KATHARINE.
there was greatly enfeebled ; and that there was reason to
fear a war with the Scots. They received an uncompromising
answer from Kobert Kolleston, "Wardrober and Provost,"
saying that security would be given for the loan, that the
Lords of the Council were themselves chief lenders, and
unless the Beverley townsmen were disposed to do like
others of their degree he would not help them, " as well
for your worship as mine ! " If they would send what they
could at once, he would help to bring it to as little sum as
he might. As the burgesses found no difficulty in giving a
bond for £200 to the Archbishop on an arbitration against
the Prior of Bridlington, in respect of the right of toll, they
seem to have been merely showing the usual desire to evade
paying their just proportion to the public funds.
Rolleston, notwithstanding his duties eJsewhere, resided a
good deal at Beverley, for in 14 Henry VI , 1435-6, he was a
residentiary canon.* On 29 March, 14 Henry VI., i.e., 1436,
John Kouth, son of the late John Routh, knight, did homage
to himt in the chancel of the Friars Minors' Church, the
Grey Friars, by Beverley, for lands in Routh, and other
places, in presence of John Ellerker, serjeant-at-law,! John
Holme sen., John Partyngton and others, and the Chancellor,
Precentor, and Sacrist of the Minster ; while ten years later §
(23 Nov., 1446) Richard Hamby did similar homage in the
Bedern for a messuage, croft and 3J acres of land in Wei-
wick held by him of the Provostry by knight's service.
In 1444,|| 30 Oct., Rolleston obtained a license in mortmain
for the foundation of a chantry at the altar of S. Katharine
the Virgin to be called the " chantry of S. John of Beverley
and S. Katharine " with lands up to £10 a year. On 21 Feb.,
1450, he obtained license to grant three messuages and
lands in Beverley and Garton on the Wolds in part per-
formance.
The chantry was completed and the. first chaplain, John
* Fabric Moll, E. R. Antiq. Soc. vii. 78. f Provost's Book, f. 79.
J He was first of the Serjeants called in 1424, and is mentioned first of tenants
of Serjeants* Inn in Fleet Street in quo loco Ellerker et alii servientes ad
legem nuper habitaverunt. Foss, iv. 244 and 247.
§ Provosts' Book, f. 83.
|| K R. Antiq. Soc. v. 44. Cf. Paulson, p. 608.
PROVOST JOHN BARNINGHAM, 1451-7.
Smith, appointed by 13 Dec., 1450, when Kolleston made his
ordinance * for the chantry, directing prayers for the soul of
"the lady Katharine, late Queen of England/' i.e. Katherine
of France, whence the dedication of the chantry; the souls of
William Rolleston his father and Ellen his mother, Roger his
brother and Margaret his wife, and others. Only 1 1 days later,
24 Dec., 1450, he made his will,t directing his body to be
buried in the middle of S. Katharine's Chapel under a marble
stone, and the east window of the chapel to be made anew
and glazed at his expense with on one side the miracles of
the B. V. M. and on the other the legend (historia) of S.
Katharine. He gave a pair of candlesticks, a pair of phials,
and a pax all of silver gilt, together with a silver holy water
basin and a suit of vestments of cloth of gold to the chantry.
The agreement already mentioned, which his executors
made with his successors, J shows that he died on 12 Jan.,
145-f-. His chantry, which was in fact called S. Katharine's §
(there being another chantry of S. John of Beverley), was pro-
bably in the southernmost bay of the aisle of the S.E. transept,
where one of the label stops on the outside of the window
bears the arms of Rolleston, bendy of six and a chevron.
It was augmented by his nephew's will 5 Sept., proved
14 Sept., 1458, who added his father's and mother's souls
and his own to those the chaplain had to pray for.
John Bernyngham, chaplain, the next Provost, was collated
10 Jan., 145y. He seems to have derived his name from
Barningham, in the extreme north of the North Riding
between Richmond and where " Brignall's Banks are fresh
and fair/' Modern writers sometimes spell him Birmingham,
but he does not seem to have had any connection with that
place, of which "Brummagem" seems to be the medieval
phonetic spelling. Stephen, son of Vincent of Barningham,
* As he describes himself as Provost in this deed it effectually negatives the
date of 1437 for the accession of his next successor but one given in Oliver,
p. 392.
t Surtees Society, Test. Ebor. ii. 138.
t Provost's Book, f. 114, translated by Poulson, p. 597, who gives correctly
the date.
§ Surtees Society, Yorkshire Chantry Surveys, ii. 531.
XC PROVOSTS LAURENCE AND JOHN BOOTH, 1457-64.
is said to have given Barningham Church to Guisboro' Priory,
temp. Henry II. Richard, William his son, and (apparently)
another William, his son, and John of Barningham, figure in
the Chartulary * up to 1306. Though a canon residentiary
at Beverley in 1445-6, f he was more of a York than a
Beverley man, having been canon of York 25 Oct., 1426, and
Treasurer there 17 Sept., 1432. He did not become canon
of Beverley till 26 March, 1435. His will,} 29 March,
proved 28 May, 1457, is chiefly concerned with York, where
he was buried on the south side of the tomb of S. William,
near the tombs of his predecessors as Treasurers. To
Beverley he only gave a silver-gilt cross bought from the
Dowager Lady Scrope of Masham, 100s. for a single obit,
with 40s. for the poor on the day of the obit.
Laurence Booth was made Provost of Beverley 31 May,
1457, by his elder half-brother, Archbishop William Booth. §
He had been since 11 March, 1452, a canon and prebendary
of S. Stephen's altar. The Provostry was to this Master
of Pembroke College, Cambridge; Privy Seal (1454); and
Lord Chancellor (1473), a mere passing possession, which he
vacated on being consecrated Bishop of Durham, 25 Sept. of
the same year. He became Archbishop of York in 1476,
12 years after the death of his half brother, in the same see.
Another brother, Robert, witnessed his will || as Dean of
York, while he had been succeeded in the Provostry -of
Beverley by another brother, John Booth.^[ He was buried
in Southwell Minster, where he founded a chantry.**
John Booth became Provost 12 January, 145f.tt The
Patent Rolls reveal him 8 Nov., 1464, as Secretary to King
* Guisboro' Chartulary, 311, 202, 169.
t Beverley Minster Fabric Roll, E. R. Antiq. Soc. vii. 82-3.
J Surtees Society, Teat Ebor. ii. 203.
§ Reg. W. Booth, f. 36 d. Not 1437 as Oliver, nor H53 as Dngdale, followed
by Poulson. But if the copy of the inscription on his tomb given in Drake's
Eborawum, p. 499, is correct, the year is 1458, as Barningham obiit 23 die mensiw
Maii 1458.
|| Surtees Society, Test. Ebor. iii. 250. ^] Converted by Poulson into Routh.
** See my Memorials of Southwell Minster, 115, 184, Camden Society. 1891.
ft R<> WT. Booth, f. 43
PROVOSTS WEBBER AND TASTER, 1465-7.
Edward IV. ; * and as Master or Warden of Manchester
College. He was made Bishop of Exeter by Papal Bull
12 June, 1465, and consecrated 7 July following, according
to Bishop Stubbs, though according to Le Neve he was not
consecrated till 23 Feb., 1466.
After John Booth two other Provosts, Henry Webber and
Peter Taster " alienigena," are inserted in the list given by
Leland, and copied thence by Poulson and Oliver; Poulson
dating Webber 1465 and Oliver 1461, while both date Taster
1466. Poulson also inserts Thomas Scot, Archbishop
Rotherham, in 1468, before William Poteman 1472, while
Oliver inserts Rotherham not only after Poteman, whom he
dates 1475, but after Hugh Trotter, whom he places in 1493.
Dugdale gives Webber 1465 and Taster 1469, between whom
Mr. Baildon inserts Thomas Rotherham in capital letters as
positively in 1468.f It is quite certain that Rotherham was
never Provost, certainly not in 1468, still less after 1493,
seeiag that he became Archbishop of York in 1480. There
is no room for him.
Webber was Precentor, having been previously Treasurer,
of Exeter Cathedral in 1453, and elected Dean 26 Dec., 1459.
There are no indications of his ever having anything to do
with the North or with Beverley until he was collated Provost
by Archbishop George Neville among the first of his archi-
episcopal acts J about the beginning of July, 1465. He held
the preferment less than three months.
Peter Taster was probably a Gascon, and had no doubt
been in Henry VI.'s employ, as on 27 Nov., 1461, he obtained
from Edward IV., under the name of Mr. Peter Taster, King's
Clerk, Dean of S. Severin, Bordeaux, a ratification of his
estate as rector of Chartham, Kent, and prebendary of
* Cal. Pat. Rolls.
f Relying on this I too wrongly made him Provost. Early Yorkshire Schools,
ii. XXT.
J Reg. G. Neville, f. 1. The collation is undated, the next entry being 5 July,
1465. It is expressed to be under the seal of Exeter, "sigille nostro, quo uti
ponsuevimus dum ecclesie cathedrali exoniensi ministravismus,"
XCil PROVOST WILLIAM POTEMAN, 1467~93.
Leighton Buzzard (Bosard) in Lincoln Cathedral. A few
days earlier, 12 Nov., he had been appointed with the Prior
of the Hospitallers and Wenlock, the King's Chief Butler,
a commissioner to inquire into alleged infractions of truce
with the Duke of Burgundy. On 30 Sept., 1465, Mr. Peter
Tastour, " doctor of decrees/' was collated by Archbishop
Neville to the Provostry, vacant by the resignation of-
Mr. Henry Webber. In Feb., 1466, described as late rector
of S. James Garlickhithe, he was made trustee for lands of
two chantries in that church escheated to the Crown for
non-compliance with the statute of mortmain. On 17 March,
1467,* a general pardon was granted him under the title
of Mr. Peter Taster, Dean of S. Severin and Provost of
Beverley. He must have been leaving office or the kingdom
at this date.
On 30 March, 1467, William Poteman was collated to the
Provostry,t vacant by the death of Mr. Peter Tastar (sic).
William Poteman first comes to light on admission as a
Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford, in 1447. He was a
" jurist," i.e. student of civil law. He was Principal of
S. George's and Woodcock Halls. On 7 Sept., 1462, was
head J of the Great School of Civil Law. He became fourth
Warden of All Souls' 9 Nov., 1459. With the wardenship
he held the college livings of Stanlake and Elmley. He was
made a canon of Lincoln (Empingham) 9 Feb., 1466.§ When
George Neville, Bishop of Exeter and Chancellor of Oxford,
became Archbishop of York, Poteman || followed him to the
North, resigning the wardenship of All Souls' and some other
southern preferments ; though taking the rectory of Tring, a
college living. He went as a lawyer, being the Archbishop's
Official Principal, and when absent his Vicar-General. He
* Pat. 6 Edw. IV. pt. i. m. 16.
t Surtees Society, Test. Ebor. iv. 79, from Reg. George Neville, f. 5b.
$ Mimimenta Aoademica. Rolls Series, ii. 687.
§ Le Neve.
|| So says Canon Raine. But it is perhaps more likely that it was the influence
of the Dean, Richard Andrewes, scholar of Winchester, fellow of New College,
who had been first Warden of All Souls' and King's Secretary and Privy Seal,
which brought Poteman to York Minster.
PROVOST HUGH TROTTER, 1493-1503. xciii
was paid by being- made canon of York 22 Feb., 1467, hold-
ing prebends of Weighton,* Barnby, Strensall, in succession;
and then, as we have seen, Provost of Beverley. He was
also a canon of Hemingborough and Ripon and Master of
S. Mary Magdalen's Hospital there. From 1470 to 1484 he
was Archdeacon of Cleveland, and from 1484 to his death in
1493 Archdeacon of Richmond. In 1474 f and 1483 f he
was employed on diplomatic missions to Scotland. He was
executor of Archbishop Neville, of Lord Grey stock, and of
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. The latter dying in
1485 gave his " gossep Mr. William Poteman," two " tonnes "
of " Gascoigne wiiie " a year.
At Beverley he was canon of S. Peter's altar, to his
successor in which he gave by his will £7 if he would let
his executors have the fruits of the prebend for a year after
his death. He was buried at York, where he was a resi-
dentiary canon. He gave by his will, 8 Nov., 1493, to All
Souls' College £13 6s. 8d., half of which was for the building
of the cloister (which stood north of the chapel) destroyed
for the Inner Quadrangle, " and if that had been finished
during his life for the new work on the east abutting on the
High Street," which was the Warden's lodgings. He also
gave 12 books, still preserved in the library. To Beverley
Minster he gave £10 " to buy a blue cope and a set of
vestments of the same suit or at least colour," and £5 to the
fabric; and "to the altar newly made there by the Pre-
centor," i.e. S. William's altar by the Precentor William
Cole, " a vestment." He directed his executors to deliver
to his successor as Provost the stock (implementa) specified
in an indenture made between himself and John Booth
(Both), late Provost after his consecration to Exeter, and
£33 6s. 8d. for repairs. One canon of Beverley, Mr.
Richard Brindholme, and the Sacrist, Mr. John Sharparrow
(Sharparowe) were his executors.
Mr. Hugh Trotter succeeded to the Provostry 27 March,
* Reg. Geo. Neville. 5, 6. Test. Ebor. iv. 79. Not as Poulson 1472, nor as
Oliver 1475.
f Rymer's Fcedera, xi. 478. Pat. Seal, ii. 434, 487.
PROVOST THOMAS DALBY, 1503-1526.
1493. The Universities were now become the highways to
ecclesiastical preferment. If an Oxford archbishop or Dean
introduced Poteman to Yorkshire preferments, a Cambridge
archbishop, Thomas Rotherham, one of the earliest fellows
of King's, brought Trotter from Cambridge, where he was
a fellow of Queen's from 1484 to 1490. On 10 April, 1493,
he was made* prebendary at S. Michael's altar, Beverley.
Next year he became Precentor and then Treasurer of York,
and so remained till his death.
By his will,t 31 Aug. (proved 2 Dec.), 1503, he directed
his body to be buried in York Minster. To Beverley he only
gave the customary £10 for a cope, and £26 5s. 8d. for
dilapidations to his successor in the Provostry. William
Wyght, Chancellor J of Beverley, was one of the executors.
An interesting bequest is of one-third part of the residue of
his estate for his brother's seven sons.
Mr. Thomas Dalby, LL.D., collated § 12 Sept., 1503, was a
civilian and canon lawyer. After 24 Aug., 1504, being made
Archdeacon of Richmond, he seems to have been commonly
known by that title. He was in 1509 || executor of Arch-
bishop Savage, and was rich enough to buy goods of the
Archbishop's to the extent of £247 8s. S^d., besides £86 9s. 9d.
more which he shared with his co-executor and co-canon of
Beverley, Thomas Magnus, Archdeacon of the East Riding.
He was also executor ^[ of John Perot, Chancellor of York, in
1519, and of Brian Wensleydale (Wensdale), notary and
proctor there, the same year.** On 18 June, 1525,tt he was
party to a deed with S. John's College, Cambridge, by which
Mr. Robert Halitreholme founded a fellowship at that college
for a native of Beverley.
* Reg. Rotherham, f. 104, f. 105.
f Surtees Society, Test. Ebor. iv. 219.
% Still Chancellor when the present misericords in the Minster were made in
1524. The westernmost stall on south side bears his name and arms, a fess between
3 weights.
§ Reg. Savage, f. 24.
|| Test. Ebor. iv. 308, 312. f Ibid. v. 98, 100.
** Not 26 June, 1525, as Oliver, p. 303 n. No authority is given.
ft See my Early Yorkshire Schools, i. Ill, Yorkshire Archaeological Society,
Record Series, xxvii. 1899,
PROVOST THOMAS WINTER, 1526-43. XCV
His Latin epitaph in the north aisle of the choir at York
says* " Pray for the soul of Thomas Dalby, doctor of decrees,
Archdeacon of Richmond, prebendary of Stillington (Steve-
lington), and canon residentiary in the metropolitical church
of York, Provost and canon residentiary in the church of
S. John of Beverley, and treasurer of the household of
Thomas Savage, formerly Archbishop of York, chaplain and
counsellor of the most illustrious King Henry VII. , and of
the most serene and all-powerful King Henry VIII., and
Dean of the chapel of the most illustrious Prince, the Duke
of Richmond and Somerset; who died 26 January, A.D. 1525,"
i.e. 1526. Appended are some curious part Latin part
English verses :
Miseremini mei, my friends all
This world hath formed me to fall
Here I may no long endure : Pray for my sail
This World is transitory and terrestrial 1.
If the epitaph be correct, the editor of the Calendar of
State Papers has misdated two letters from the Council of
the North and the Duke of Richmond's Council (presumably
they were the same bodies) dated 5 Nov. and 25 Dec., 1526,
signed by Dalby with others. There is independent evidence
of Dalby's death early in 1526 in the entry of the admission of
his successor in the prebend of North Leverton in Southwell
Minster f on 6 July, 1526, which is said to be on the vacancy
caused by Dalby's death.
Thomas Winter, Wolsey's natural son, sometimes euphe-
mistically called his nephew, succeeded Dalby in his two
principal preferments, the Archdeaconry of Richmond on
24 March, 152f,J and the Provostry of Beverley about the
same time. He was then certainly not more than 17, and
probably only 15 years old. But he was already Canon of
Lincoln J (Melton ecclesia), 28 March, 1522, canon of York,
being prebendary of Fridaythorpe,J 30 Sept., 1522, which
he vacated for the richer prebend of Strensall 9 Jan., 15234
* Drake's Eboracum, p. 502-3. He gives "soul," but as the word clearly
rhymes with " fall " and " terrestriall," I have corrected to a common spelling of
the period " sail." The drawing of the tomb shows Dalby's round doctor's cap.
f Visitations and Memorials of Southwell Minster, p. 152. J Le Neve.
XCvi CARDINAL WOLSEY's SON, DEAN OF WELLS,
canon of Southwell (Paleshall * 22 June, exchanged for
Overhall 2 Aug.), 1522 ; * Chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral f
and prebendary of Bedwind ; f Archdeacon of Norfolk f and
Archdeacon of York,f all which he became in the year 1523.
To these at some date unascertained he had added the richest
prebend of Beverley, that of S. Peter's, which on 28 Feb.,
1526, was returned J as worth £48 a year. Within a few
days or weeks of being made Provost of Beverley, on 26 March,
1526, he became Dean of Wells, by which title he was thence-
forth known until the crash came in his father's fortunes.
On 24 March, 1526, he received a grant of arms§ from
the Heralds, and in addition to the other preferments already
mentioned he is then said to be also rector of Rudby || and
of S. Matthew's, Ipswich. To these he added the arch-
deaconry of Suffolk 12 Nov., 1526.
He spent nearly all his time in Paris under various tutors,
one of whom defends himself in 1519 because his pupil did
not yet know Latin, from which Brewer infers that he was
10 years old and born in 1509. But at that time Latin was
begun at a much tenderer age ; and as on 24 May, 1528,
Clerk wrote to Wolsey that he was three fingers taller than
when Wolsey had last seen him, and beginneth to grow in
breadth, we can hardly put him at more than eight years old
in 1509. On 5 Oct., 1526, one of Wolsey' s correspondents
attended a Greek lecture at Paris with him. On 13 Sept.,
1526, efforts were being made to obtain dispensations for him
de defectu natalium, a proof positive (if such were wanting) of
his illegitimate birth. This must have been wanted for him
to take minor orders probably at the usual age of 15, as it
was not till long after Wolsey 's death that the question of
his taking priest's orders necessitated further dispensations.
Meanwhile there were many complaints that he was making
* Visitations and Memorials of Southwell Minster, 152.
f Le Neve.
J For rubric 7, Cal. Sta. Fa. under date
§ The arms were gorgeous. Argent, on a cross gules, between 4 turtle-doves
proper, beaked purpure, with a garb between 4 besants : on a chief azure, a lion
passant between 2 leopards' heads, or. The bearings in the chief savour of
royalty. Fiddes' Collections, Appendix, p. 22.
|| Misprinted Rugby in Cal. Sta. Pa. under date. Rudby is in the North
Riding in Cleveland.
THE P&OVOST&Y AFTEfe WOLSEY* S FALL. XCVll
the money fly, and causing Wolsey great uneasiness, though
his tutors valiantly maintained that Paris was a very ex-
pensive place, and that it redounded to the Cardinal's credit
that his scholar should make a good show.
Winter is commonly said to have been stripped of all his
preferments on Wolsey 's fall. But this is not so. He did,
indeed, resign the deanery of Wells in 1528, the arch-
deaconry of Richmond, the prebend of Strensall, York, the
prebend of Melton, Lincoln, the archdeaconries of Norfolk
and Suffolk, and the chancellorship of Salisbury in the end
of 1528 and beginning of 1529. But there is reason to
believe that this was done with a view to his promotion to
the see of Durham, as on 6 Oct., 1528, Wolsey wrote to the
King to ask that see for his " pore scoler," the Dean of
Wells, " when I shulde fortune to leve the same " for Win-
chester, pointing out that Winter's becoming a bishop would
let loose a large amount of patronage to the King. Wolsey
got the bishopric of Winchester, though the King must at
that very time have decided on his destruction ; and it was
perhaps part of his insidiousness to let Winter resign his pre-
ferments, though he never intended to make him Bishop of
Durham. Whatever the motive of the resignation, Winter at
all events retained enough to make the fortune of any ordinary
civil servant or ecclesiastic of the day. He remained Pro-
vost of Beverley, Archdeacon of York, and was prebendary
of Eampton in Southwell Minster long after Wolsey's fall.
Wolsey himself wrote, 25 July, 1530, to Gardiner, his
successor in the bishopric of Winchester, to thank him for
his kind reception of " the Provost of Beverley," and for
having taken him to see the King, " who had accepted him
as his scholar." On Wolsey's death Winter returned to his
studies in Italy, and there are many letters extant from him
to Thomas Cromwell thanking him for his help, and generally
asking for money. Thus on 14 July, 1531, he wrote that he
did not know how to live " unless 200 crowns were sent
before the end of August." The money "could be repaid
out of his benefices." In 1534 he returned home without
telling Cromwell, but writes to him, 9 July, that he had been
graciously received by the King, and the Queen, Anne
Boleyii, had called him her " dearest Winter."
XCviii MISTAKES A.S TO BEVERLEY IN VALOR, 1535.
In 1536 and 1537 he was appealing against the assessment
of the Provostry in the Valor Ecclesiasticus, his receiver,
Thomas Barton,* urging him f " to labour the Privy Seal,"
Cromwell, " to write to the Archbishop," as he should only
pay £10 18s. 8d. for tenths instead of £17 2s. lOd.
A letter to Cromwell % from the Commissioners for levying
the tenths shows that the Valor is not an absolutely trust-
worthy document. They say te sum summes be confounded
one in a nother, as, ther is putt upon the church of Beverley
£17 2s. lOJd., and no dy vision made what the Provostre
should pay, nor what the commyn of the church of Beverley
shuld pay. And by cause it is putt fde ecclesia collegiata
Sancti Johannis Beverle such a sum ' we doubt how the same
shall be levied. The Sacrista or Thesaurer of the church of
Beverley is left out. The vj parsons in the same church
be put Kectores ad altare S. N. in Beverlaco, where they
shuld be named parsons in the same church. An vicareg of
saint Michael § called Holm church in Beverley. Non such is
there, but of saint Nicholas there is oon."
On 8 Oct., 1537, Winter was given a new preferment, the
archdeaconry of Cornwall. On 9 July, 1540, he signed, as
Archdeacon of Cornwall with the Southern, and as Provost
of Beverley with the Northern Convocation, their joint judg-
ment on the nullity of Henry VIII.'s marriage with Anne of
Cleves. On 8 Nov., as canon and prebendary of Rampton,
he signed the surrender of Southwell Minster to the King.||
On 6 Feb., 1541, the King asked the Bishop and the Chapter
of Exeter to confirm a lease by Thomas Winter, the King's
servant, of the archdeaconry of Cornwall to one Thomas
* An account of his in 22-3 Henry VIIL, 1530-1, found among Cromwell's
papers, is printed by Poulson, p. 614, with many errors, especially in the translation.
t 2 Feb. 1637, perhaps a mistake for 1536, Cal. Sta. Pa. under date.
J Brit. Mus. Galba E. iv. p. 370.
§ Oddly enough the reverse mistake was made by Mr. Page in the Yorkshire
Chantry Surveys, ii. 527, where he makes S. Nicholas prebend be in the hands
of Sir Michael Stanhope. We might say, "None such was there, but of S.
Michael there was one."
|| Close Roll, 32 Henry VIIL pt. i. m. 3. Rymer xiv. 676. He had resigned
Overhall Dec., 1529, but not as I thought (Southwell Minster, p. 160 n.\
because he was made to resign all his benefices, but because he was taking
Rampton prebend instead.
PROVOST REGINALD LEE, 1543-8.
Body, who had spent much money in getting it and would
lose if Winter died. On 25 May, 1543, John Pollard was
collated to the archdeaconry of Cornwall on the resignation
of Winter. This was the last known record of him.
We now learn that on 8 June, 1543, Reginald Lee, clerk,
a son or nephew of Archbishop Edward Lee, was collated to
the Provostry, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Thomas
Wynter.* Winter was to receive a pension of £86 for five
years, if he so long lived, payable half-yearly " on the font in
the nave of S. Paul's/' f but at the end of five years the
pension was to be £30 a year only. In the certificate taken
under the Act for the dissolution of Colleges and Chantries,
commonly called the Chantries Act, which vested the College
as from Easter, 1548, in the Crown under J "The collegiate
and parishe churche of Beverley " we read : " In the same
is one parson, called the Provost, the incumbent wherof ys
named Raynolde Lee, temporall man, of the age of xxij yeres
or thereabouts." So that he had been appointed at the age
of 20, and was still incapable of the holy orders which had
been required of Aymo de Carto two and a half centuries
earlier. By June, 1548, Reginald Lee himself was a pensioner
at £50 a year, in respect of the Provostry of the dissolved
college. So ended the ancient line of the Provosts of
Beverley.
There is no space to discuss at length either the policy or
the results of the dissolution of the college or church of
Beverley. Whatever may have been the use of the college
in earlier days, its continuance was almost as incompatible
with the progress of knowledge and the destruction of super-
stition as the monasteries themselves.
To keep 77 persons, mostly better paid than the majority
of people who did the work of the world, in laborious
* Reg. Lee, f. 74.
•f "Super fontem in navi cathedralis ecclesie divi Pauli London." This pro-
vision and that above quoted as to the archdeaconry of Cornwall looks as if
Winter was ill and expecting to die.
J Surtee Society, Yorkshire Chantry Surveys, ii. 524.
C FINANCIAL EFFECT OF
idleness, merely for the purpose of praying people, who
had been dead for scores or hundreds of years, out of purga-
tory, or to scurry through seven services a day, which
no one attended but themselves, was an anomaly and an
anachronism as soon as people began to doubt whether any
purgatory existed or to question the utility of vicarious
religion. To attempt to represent the dissolution of those
places as a mere outbreak of vulgar greed on the part of
kings or nobles, who wanted to grab lands their ancestors
had given, is merely to misunderstand the philosophy and
misrepresent the facts of history.
There is no evidence that any of the endowments of
Beverley were given away gratis. Even the manor of
Bentley, granted about 1552 to the Duke of Northumber-
land, the Prime Minister of the day, was granted for other
lands received in exchange. The Crown, however, must have
made very little profit from the suppression. The confiscated
estates were burdened with heavy pensions to the late incum-
bents, some of which were still being paid till far on in the
reign of James I. Meanwhile the Crown lost the advantage
of the patronage of the Provostry and canonries, which, as
we have seen, were practically used like the bishoprics and
cathedral preferments to pay the civil service. With lay
and married, and therefore more expensive, civil servants to
pay, and the loss of ecclesiastical preferments to pay them
with, the later Tudors and Stewarts found themselves even
in the time of peace confronted with perpetual insolvency, or
the necessity of perpetual Parliaments. Hence, in a way
which has hitherto escaped attention, the Reformation of
the sixteenth century was the cause of the revolution of the
seventeenth century.
On the dissolution, provision was made for what were
regarded as the three principal utilities of the Collegiate
Church : the maintenance of the fabric of the church, its
parochial ministers, and the Grammar School.
By s. 2 of the " Act for the dissolution of Colleges and
Chantries," commissioners were to be appointed to assign
endowments "for and towards the sufficient fynding and
CREATION OF THE VICARAGE. ci
rnaynetenaunce of schoolmasters and preachers in such places
where the same were founded or ordered to be kept, and for
and towarde the sufficyent fyndyng and maynetenaunce of
priestes within such townes or parisshes, where there is
necessite to have mo priestes then one for the mynistracion
of sacramentes and for the makyng vicars to have perpetuyte
for ever in parishe churches, wiche [on the] first day of the
Parliament were collegies .... and for the sufficyent indow-
ment of suche vicars having respect to other cures and
charges." Sir Walter Mildmay and Robert Kelway were ap-
pointed commissioners 20 June, 1548 * ; but as there was not
time to settle all the endowments, they were directed " till
further order " to issue warrants to continue to pay so much
money as had been yearly paid for this purpose. Warrants
were issued accordingly 20 July, 1548.f That for the East
Riding, including Beverley, is not extant. It probably
perished at York in the great destruction of documents when
S. Mary's tower was accidentally burnt in the siege of York
by Fairfax during the Civil War. But it is referred to, and
its effect appears in the account of J Richard Whalley, esquire,
the Receiver-General of the Court of Augmentations of the
revenues of the Crown for Yorkshire for the year 1549-50.
Under the heading of " Pensions assigned and appointed
to divers priests or assistants to the cures § for the ministry
and support of divers services in divers parish churches in
the East Riding (Est Riddinge) " we find those of
" Thomas Michell, vicar of the parish church of Beverley, this year, £13 6s. 8d.
" Thomas Dringe, appointed to assist the cure in the parish aforesaid, £8.
"John Atkinson, incumbent of tfye late chantry of S. Katharine, appointed to
assist the cure there in the same parish, vice Anthony Collison, now dead, £8.
" William Jeffrey, incumbent of the late chantry of Holy Trinity in Beverley,
appointed to assist the same cure, £8."
* English Schools at the Reformation, vii.-xvi. and 73-6. f lUd. 76.
J P. R. O. Land Revenue Receivers' Accounts if*. The first year, 1548-9,
is not extant, nor that for 1550-1. That for 1551-2 is to be found under
Exchequer Ministers' Accounts, 4-5 Edw. VI. No. 89 ; and that for 1552-3,
5-6 Edw. VI. No. 74. Many of the accounts missing from the Exchequer
Ministers' Accounts, the natural place for them, will be found amongst the Land
Revenue Records lately transferred to the Record Office.
§ It is doubtful whether the Latin is " assistentibus cure " or " assistentibus
curatis," but probably the former.
VOL. II. h
Cll
THE VICAR AND ASSISTANTS.
All these payments are said to be
" so granted to them and each of them at the pleasure of the Lord the King
by mandate of Walter Mildmay, knight, a general surveyor of the Court of
Augmentations, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally, as appears more at
large in the account of this office for the second and third years of the King."
The total amount of such payments in the Biding, including
that to the Master of Hull Grammar School, was £96 13s. 4d.
This first Vicar of Beverley is described in the Chantry
Certificates * as
" Thomas Mighell, clerke, one of the said vicars choralles .... of the
age of 52 yeres, indifferently larned, and hath over and besides the same pro-
mocion, one chauntry of the yerely value of £5 6s. 8d."
The vicar choralship was worth £8 a year, besides a share
in the "common lands" of the vicars, which brought in
£79 8s. 4d., and divisible among nine of them, added
£8 16s. 5d. to their salary, more than doubling it. It is
probable that he did not actually lose by the substitution of a
salary of £13 6s. 8d. for £22 odd, as the Easter dues and
other vicarial offerings probably made it up. Thomas Dring,
appointed " assistant to the cure " at £8 was also a vicar
choral " of the age of 27 years," and is lumped with the
other vicars choral, other than Michell, as " of honest
qualities and indifferently lerned, and having no other
promocyon." He too lost the advantage of the common
lands. Of the other assistant curates, each at £8, Anthony
Collinson or Colly nson, was incumbent of S. Katharine's
chantry, " aged 39, of honest qualities and lerned." To him
the assistant curacy was advancement, as his chantry f had
only brought in £5 2s. 6d. a year. So it was to William
Jeffrey or Jeffrason, one of the two priests of the Trinities, J
formerly of S. Thomas of Canterbury,§ who only took £6 12s.
from his chantry. John Atkinson, who succeeded Collinson,
does not appear in the Chantry Certificates.
The Ministers' Accounts, which unfortunately were dis-
covered too late for incorporation in the text of this volume,
have enabled a list of the vicars of Beverley down to the
cessation of these accounts in the Civil War to be compiled,
* Yorkshire Chantry Surveys, ii. 529.
f Ibid. 531. This was Rolleston's chantry.
+ Ibid. 532. § Poulhon, 638.
CONTINUATION OF GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Clll
which if it cannot be vouched for as absolutely complete, is at
least more correct than the very inaccurate ones given by
former historians. It should be noted that from 1565 the
vicar of Beverley is generally called Preacher in the accounts,
and that was his common title. In those days not every vicar
or rector, still less any budding curate, was allowed to
preach, but only a select few, specially licensed for the
purpose. The common herd had to read the homilies drawn
up by authority for the purpose. Hence the title of Preacher
was a far more august one than that of vicar, and was in
those days of far more importance ; and at Beverley it long
superseded that of vicar.
These Ministers' Accounts also enable us to fill up the
gap which hitherto has existed in the history of Beverley
Grammar School, and to connect the pre-dissolution school
with that now existing. Hitherto there has been no direct
evidence of the existence of the school after the dissolution
until 1562, when the Governors of the town paid the school-
master 12s.* for teaching a poor boy. Poulson had expressed
his surprise f that the burgesses had not petitioned at Beverley
as elsewhere for the continuance of the school. It now appears
that they had taken steps for its continuance. For in the
Eeceiver-GeneraFs account already quoted are entries of two
payments for its maintenance. Under the heading of " Fees
and Annuities " we find — J
"Annuity of Thomas Jervis, schoolmaster in the church of Beverley at £8 a
year, so granted to him for life by Letters Patent of the King Edward VI.
dated at Westminster day year ; for a whole year within the time
of this account £8."
The date was not filled in, but a marginal note in the original
says " Entre the date of the lettres patent." The date was,
however, never entered either in that or in subsequent
accounts. Apparently it was never entered on the Patent
Eolls, as it cannot be found there now. In the same account
under the same heading, where the pensions to the vicar
* Early Yorkshire Schools, i. 116. t JScverlac, 452.
$ Et in annuitate Thome Jervis, ludi magistri in ecclesia Beverlaci ad viij.11
per annum.
Civ THE USHER S CHANTRY
and assistants occur, is the further entry relating to the
school.
"Robert Robinson, schoolmaster (ludimagister), founded by the chantry of
S. William in Beverley, £6 9s. lid."
There being two schoolmasters thus paid, it must be con-
cluded that Jervis was the master or head master and Robinson
the usher or second master, who had been separately endowed
by the chantry of S. William. The usher (ostiarius) appears
as a witness in some deeds relating to the Minster early in
the thirteenth century, while in Archbishop Arundel's
Statutes of 1391, p. 268, he is called under-master (sub
magister scolarum). S. William's Chantry was founded by
William Cok or Cook, who was Precentor of Beverley from
1 March, 1480.* He was, no doubt, the same person as
Mr. William Cook who was executor of Robert Booth, Dean
of York, 23 Jan., 148 J,| ^or whose soul, with that of John
Barnyngham, Provost Hugh Trotter, by his will in 1303,J
directed his successor as Treasurer of York to pray. He was
possibly the rector of Brandsburton of that name to whom
Bryan Hulme of Beverley, esquire, granted a close at
Brandsburton between the rector's manor (curiam) and the
East field, 11 Jan., 1458.§
Cook was dead by 1500, as appears from a document of
that date, 1 1
" A list and trew rental of all the lands tenements and possessions that
belongyth to the chauntrie of Sanct William in the collegiate church of Sainct
John of Beverley, funded by Mr. William Cok, lait chaunter of the sayd church,
deceased, without ordinance makyng, but by will and feoffment."
Being founded by a Precentor this chantry-school may be
thought to have been a Song School. But there is evidence
to the contrary. The Fabric Roll for the year 1531-2 is at
the Record Office IT and shows us that George Morsell, the
* Brit. Mus. Add. Ch. 5773. It is a grant by Roger Suthron and others,
executors of Katharine, Roger's wife, to Robert Wod, clerk, of two houses on the
Provost's Tee by the Beck, and is witnessed by Provost Poteman and the three
dignitaries and two laymen.
f Surtees Society, Test. Ebor. iv. 32. Canon Raine in his note wrongly identi-
fied him with one of the same name who was canon of Ripon (Thorp) from 1497
to 1521. Memorials of Ripon, ii. 220.
+ Test. Ebor. iv. 220. § Lansd. Ch. 428. || Brit. Mus. Add. Ch. 25703.
^[ A translation is given by Poulson, p. 638.
THOMAS JERVIS, SCHOOLMASTER. CV
chantry priest of S. ' Anne, was the Master of the choristers
or Song School Master, for which he received £2 6s. 8d. a
year, in addition to the value of the chantry, viz. £7 6s. 8d.
in 1531, returned as £6 17s. clear in 1548. Morsell still held
that chantry in 1548,* being then 58 years old, and was
pensioned for it. Moreover, it was only Grammar Schools
which were saved by the Chantries Act. The Song Schools
perished.
Who Thomas Jervis was, or from what fund he was pre-
viously paid as schoolmaster, cannot be ascertained. His
name does not occur in the Chantry Certificate for Beverley.
It must be presumed that either he had been paid from the
common lands of the church, or, perhaps, by the chan-
cellor, whose deputy he originally was and who still had the
appointment. At the sister minster of Southwell the school-
master received payments from both sources.
The payments ordered by the Warrants were continued to
Thomas Jervis and to Robert Robinson throughout the reign
of Edward VLf under the same form.
In the account of 6 Edward VI. to 1 Mary. i.e. Michaelmas
1 552-3, J the entry ends " in such allowance for the first half
of the year, besides £4 to be paid by the Governors of
the church of Beverley, £4." There is a marginal note in
English : " Note. The Governors of the towne must paie the
other moytie out of the lands of the church yerely, which
lands were geven to the Governors lately by King E. the
vjtb." So in the next year for which the accounts are extant,
2 and 3 to 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, 1 556-7, § the entry
appears ain such allowance yearly beyond £4 paid yearly by
the Governors of the church of Beverley, £8," but the £8 is
crossed through, and a note in Latin adds (< cancelled because
not paid." § The payment to Robinson was made as usual.
The explanation is that the burgesses of Beverley presented
a petition || to the Crown, pointing out that the Minster was
* Yorkshire Chantry Surveys, ii. 533.
-J- Exchequer Ministers' Accounts, 4-5 Edw. VI. No. 89, and 5-6 Edw. VI.
No. 74. % Land Eevenue Receivers' Accounts, ^f2-.
§ Exchequer Ministers' Accounts.
|| Early Yorkshire Schools, i. 113. I there dated the petition 1552. It is
undated in the original, but tacked on to other papers of that year dealing with it.
It may have been presented earlier.
GRANT OF THE FABRIC LANDS.
like to fall into utter ruin and decay through loss of the
lands assigned to the support of the fabric
" to the yerelie value of threescore poundes and above .... though not
within the compas of the statute .... for the dissolucion of colleges and
chauntries."
And also as Beverley was —
"a market towne and the greatest* within all Estryding of your Majesties
countie of Yorke, having a grate nombre of youthe within the same and 5000
persons and above, whereof some of them be apte and mete to be brought up in
learning, whiche are not, for as muche as there is neither gramer schole or any
other schole as yet founded, wherewith they might be brought up in any vertuous
studie."
Either this petition was made before the warrants issued
in August, 1548, or it must be understood to mean that the
Beverley folk did not, as their less well informed successors
in many cases do, consider that Edward VI. in substituting a
fixed payment for an old endowment had founded a school.
They asked for a grant of the Fabric Lands, and ' ' allso that
there may be created within the said towne, of your moost
princely fundacion one Fre Gramer Schole." The petition
was referred by the Privy Council 6 July, 1 552, to Sir Eichard
Sackville, Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, who
reported, as was indeed the case, that the Fabric Lands,
called "the Office of the Woorkes," worth £68 Is. a year,
were possessions of the collegiate church, and therefore the
King had good title to them. This report did not prevent
the petition being granted. On 23 Nov., 1552, it was found
that "my lordes grace," i.e. the Duke of Northumberland,
held by a recent exchange the manor of Bentley, part of
the Fabric Lands, " so there must be other lands assigned to
the like value." Among the Chantry Certificates f is a terrier
of the lands so proposed to be assigned. I am now (pp. 354-7)
able to give the actual grant from the Town Eecords. The
grant was made by a decree of the Court of Augmentations
12 November, 1552. It was "ordered and decreed that the
twelve Governors .... shall receyve and take .... so
* This is interesting as showing that even then Edward I.'s foundation, Hull,
had not yet outstripped the ancient capital of the Riding,
t Yorkshire Chantry Surveys, ii. 543.
OMISSION OF SCHOOL. CV11
mouche of the said .... landes .... called the Office of
Works " as still remained in the Crown, amounting to
£33 18s. 4d. net a year (for, besides Bentley, lands to the
value of £3 a year had also been sold) ; and in lieu of Bentley,
worth £18 5s., the lands of the chantries of S. John of
Beverley and S. William, worth £14 18s. 4d., together with
an annual ' pencion' of £4 13s. 4d., payable by them to the
Crown for the chantry of S. Katharine in S. Mary's Church.
The property thus assured to the Governors is not specified in
further detail in the grant. It is, however, set out in a
terrier among the Chantry Certificates.* There is a similar
Roll at Beverley, but whether it belongs to the same date,
or to 1578, when it is marked as examined by Anthony Rowe,
auditor, who describes the church as "a very large and goodly
monument," is by no means clear. In it the rental of the
Fabric Lands is given as £34 6s. lid. instead of £33 15s. 10d.,
as stated in the decree. From this R/oll it appears that
seven of the pensioned vicars choral or chantry priests were
still living in chambers (cubiculi) by the churchyard belong-
ing to the Fabric Lands.
The Governors were ordered to " employ " all the income
"upon the reparacions of the said church" as before time
has been accustomed, and they were to account to the King's
auditor of the county how it was employed. Strangely
enough nothing is said about the Grammar School, which
was equally the object of the petition.
From the entry quoted above from the Ministers' Accounts
that the Governors of the town, by mistake called Governors
of the church, had undertaken to pay the Master's salary, it
almost looks as if the school had been omitted accidentally.
But it may have been intended to have a separate grant and
charter of foundation for the school. As all payments for
schools by the Crown under the Mildmay warrants were
stopped in 1555 until those entitled sued out fresh decrees
* Ibid. 544. The Beverley Roll corrects some mistakes or misreadings of the
Record Office document, e.g. Cawood not Calworde, was the name of the late
incumbent of S. Katharine's Chantry. There are some very odd discrepancies
between the two terriers. The most remarkable is that while the certificate says
that the Town Governors paid the rent of S. Katharine's Chantry, the Town Roll
makes it payable by the Churchwardens of S, Mary's.
CViii THE SCHOOL IN ELIZABETH'S REIGN.
from the Court of Exchequer, and many of them never did
so, and as none of the Beverley Town accounts, from 1548 to
1562, are extant, there seem to be no means of discovering
exactly what happened.
That there was a school in 1562 is clear from payments
being made to the schoolmaster's players for plays, showing
that here as elsewhere the school plays took the place of the
old Corpus Christi pageants. It seems probable that in some
form Jervis or Robinson or both continued in office being paid
from some other source than the town revenues. When in
1575 a definite payment to the master reappears it is at the
rate of £21, more than double that of the Headmasters of
Winchester and Eton, who still received only the old stipends
of £10 a year. William Richardson, " clerk," who received
it, had been assistant curate in 1565, and in 1577 became
preacher and vicar, so it is possible he had, all the time he was
assistant, been also master.
At all events we have now shown that the old school went
on throughout the reign of Edward VI. and part of Mary's
reign. The gap which in Poulson's time was 50 years, and
in Early Yorkshire Schools was 14 years, is now reduced to
the interval between 1555 and 1562. Further research may
make it disappear altogether. It is pleasant to think that
at all events this most useful part of the old college still does
useful work a thousand years after its first creation.
In conclusion, I have to return thanks to Professor Skeat
for his notes and comments on the famous rhyming charter
of King Athelstan (p. 280) ; to Canon Nolloth, Vicar of
Beverley, for the use of the Provost's Book at home (p. 305-
43) ; to the Corporation and Town Clerk of Beverley, Mr.
J. W. Mills, for like facilities for documents (p. 353-66);
and above all to the Secretary, Mr. W. Brown, for the
extracts from the Archbishops' Registers at York (p. 137-
239) and many dates of Provosts from the same source.
PROVOST ROBERT OF ABBERWICK. xlix*
Too late for inclusion in the text, I unexpectedly found a
clue to Robert of Abberwick in the early Account Eolls of
Merton College, Oxford. Mr. Robert of Alberwik as a Fellow
of the college served his turn as Steward of Hall for a week,
in 1285. In 1286 he received a special livery of 38s 8Jd., and
" for his expenses to Pontelond 24s ; and by the hands of Mr.
John of Tyten in part payment for Mr. Robert of Alberwyk's
journey to Pontelond 243, and 10s by the hands of Mr. William
of Hy, which he owed him." The Accounts of the College
after 1286 know him no more. So it is clear that he vacated
his fellowship in that year for the living of Ponteland in
Northumberland, which belonged to Merton College. The late
Warden Brodrick* identifies him with one called Albert of
Alberwick who had been made third bursar by Archbishop
Kilwardby on his visitation of the College in 1276.
On 13 Jan., 129f, Mr. Robert of Albuwyke t (no doubt a
misreading of Alberwyk), Perpetual Vicar of the collegiate
church of S. Andrew's Auckland, Bishop Auckland, near
Durham, was made the first Dean of that church with an
augmented prebend derived from the tithes of land newly
reclaimed from the forest. Abberwick was therefore one of
the earliest scions of Merton to attain great preferment, and
one of the first Provosts of Beverley to owe his preferment
to academical, and not to civil service distinction.
* Memorials of Merton College (Oxford Historical Society), 185.
f Dugdale, Monasticon, vi. 1835.
PEOVOSTS.
CORRECTED LIST.*
1 . 1092. Thomas the younger.
King's Chaplain : Bp. Lon-
don : Abp. York.
Thomas the Norman .f
2. 1108.
3. 1132.
Thurstan.f
Archdn. Eichmond.
4. 1153. (?) Roger.
Abp. York.
5. 1154. Thomas a Becket.
Chancellor: Abp. Canter-
bury.
C. 1162. Geoffrey. f
Chancellor of young King
Henrv : drowned at sea.
PREVIOUS
1. 1092. Thomas.
Abp. York.
2. 1101. Thurstan.
Abp. York.
3. 1108. Thomas the Norman.1
Abp. York.
4. 1135. Robert de Gaute.2
5. 1139. Thomas a Becket.3
Abp. Canterbury.
6. 1154. Robert.4
7. 1179. Geoffrey Plantagenet.5
Chanc.: Abp. York.
8. 1196. Simon de Apulia.6
Bp. Exeter.
7. 1177. Robert, f
Canon York.
8. 1202. Simon Fitzrobert or Wells.
Bp. Chichester.
9. 1204. Alan.f
Canon Ripon.
Those marked f died Provosts.
* An attempt is made to give the chief preferment, civil and ecclesiastical
other than the Provostry, to which each Provost attained.
J This List is that given by Poulson, mainly founded on that in Leland's
Itinerary. The notes give the divergencies of the Lists in Dugdale's Monasticon,
Oliver's History of Beverley, and Mr. Baildon's Monastic Notes, Yorkshire
Archaeological Society, Record Series, xvii. Some references are given to Torre's
List which still remains in MS. in the Archbishop's Registry at York.
1 Poulson says Thomas the Norman was consecrated as Archbishop in June,
1 109, which he had previously said of Thomas the 1st Provost. This Thomas
was never Archbishop. Oliver gives 1114 as his date.
- 0. only calls him Robert, and Dugdale Robert de Gante. Instead of Robert,
Torre gives Roger, afterwards Archbishop of York.
3 Torre dates 1154.
4 O. dates 1!62, Torre 1161.
3 O. dates 1170, calling him simply -Galfridus.
" O. dates 1189, calling him simply Simon.
VOL. II. i
ex
PROVOSTS.
PREVIOUS LISTS.
9. 1213. Fulk Basset.1
Bp. London.
10. 1213. John Cheshull.2
Chancellor.
CORRECTED LIST.
10. 1212. Morgan.f
Son of Henry II. : Bp. elect
Durham.
11. 1217. William.
12. 1218. Peter of Sherburn.f
Canon and Official of the
Court of York.
13. 1222. Fulk Basset.
Dean York : Bp. London.
14. 1239. William of York.
Bp. Salisbury.
15. 1244. William of Cantilupe.f
Son of Chief Justice.
16. 1247, John Mansell.f
Privy Seal : Chanc. Ex-
chequer : Chanc. S.
Paul's.
17. 1263. John Chesull.
Chanc. Exchequer : Trea-
surer : B . London.
18. 1274. Peter of Chester f
Baron Exchequer.
19. 1294. Aymo de Carto (Hamo de
Quarto).
King's Clerk : Bp. Geneva.
20. 1304. Robert of Abberwickf, (Al-
8 June. berwyk).
Those marked f died Provosts.
1 O. dates 1206. Torre adds Provost M. between Simon of Apulia and Fulk
Basset.
2 O. dates 1238, Dugdale 1234. Mr. Baildon cuts him in two and gives
another John de Chishull 1267, between Morgan and Peter of Chester. He was
never Chancellor of England.
3 O. gives date 1241. Torre gives Peter of Shirburn before William of York.
4 Dugdale gives date 1247, to which Mr. Baildon adds 1260. He was never
Chief Justice.
5 O. dates 1268.
6 O. dates 1270. Mr. Baildon cuts this Provost also in two, putting one
Morgan in 1212 and another in 1265.
7 1222 must be a misprint for 1282, the date given by Dngdale. 0. dates 1273.
8 O. dates 1294, calling him Haymo de Charto, " afterwards Bishop of
Gloucester, according to Lelaud."
9 O. dates 1300. Dugdale and Torre put John of Nassington, 1304, before
R. of Alberwick. Mr. Baildon calls him Naffington. John of Na^sington
Official of the Court of York, was a- canon of Beverley and York, never Provost.
11. 1240. William of York.3
Bp. Salisbury.
12. 1248. John Mansel.4
Chief Justice.
13. 1251. Alan.5
14. 1265. Morgan.6
Natural son of Henry II.
15. 1222. Peter de Chester.?
16. 1298, Haymo de Quarto-8
Bp. Giberenensis.
17. 1306. Robert de Alburwyck.9
PROVOSTS.
CXI
CORRECTED LIST.
21. 1306. Walter Reynolds.
3 Apr. Chancellor: Bp. Worcester :
Abp. Canterbury.
22. 1308. William of Melton.
22 Oct. Abp. York : Chancellor.
23. 1318. Nicholas of Hugate f (Hug-
2 Jan. gate).
Keeper of Wardrobe : Can.
York : bur. in Minster.
24. 1338. William de la Mare.
24 June. Nephew of Abp. Melton :
Can. York.
25. 1360. Richard of Ravenser.
4 Oct. Master in Chancery :
Archdn. Lincoln.
26. 1370. Adam of Lymbergh (Lim-
ber).
Son of Ch. Baron Ex-
chequer.
27. 1373. John of Thoresby f
20 Apr. Nephew Abp. Thoresby :
Can. York.
28. 1380. Robert Manfeld.f
Master in Chancery : Can.
York, St. Paul's.
29. 1419. William Kinwolmarsh.f
6 May. Treasurer of England.
30. 1422. Robert Neville.
18 Dec. Bp. Salisbury, then Durham.
31. 1427. Robert Rolleston.f
7 Dec. Keeper of Wardrobe : buried
in Minster.
32. 1451. John Barningham.t
14 Jan. Treasurer York: died and
buried there.
PREVIOUS LISTS.
18. 1308. Walter.1
19. 1310. William de Melton.2
Chanc. : Treasurer : Abp.
York.
20. 1317. Nicholas de Huggate.3
21. 1338. William de la Mare.4
22. 1347. Richard de Ravenser.5
23. 1370. Adam de Lymbergh. s
24. 1373. John de Thoresby.7
M. R. : Bp. St. David's
Worcester: Abp. York
Cardinal.
25. 1381. Robert Man field.8
26. 1419. William Kinwolmarsh.
27. 1422. Robert Neville.
Bp. Salisbury; Durham.
28. 1427. Robert Rolleston.9
29. 1450. John Birmingham.
Those marked f died Provosts.
1 O. dates 1306 and calls him Walter de Raymund, afterwards Bishop of
W orcester. Torre calls him correctly Reynolds.
2 O. dates 1308. Mr. Baildon says Abp. of York 1315, for 1318.
3 O. dates 1315 ; Dugdale 1317, to which Mr. Baildon adds 1335.
4 Mr. Baildon adds 1347.
5 O. dates 1365. 6 Mr. Baildon adds 1371.
7 Mr. Baildon adds 1378. Abp. Thoresby was never a Cardinal.
Mr. Baildon adds 1413.
9 Mr. Baildon adds 1439.
CX11
PROVOSTS.
CORRECTED LIST.
33. 1457. Laurence Booth.
3 1 May. Bp. Durham : Abp. York :
Chancellor.
34. 1458. John Booth.
12 Jan. King's Sec. : Bp. Exeter.
35. 1465. Henry Webber.
July. Dean Exeter.
36. 1465. Peter Taster.f
30 Sept. King's clerk: Dean St.
Severin, Bordeaux:
37. 1467. William Poteman.f
30 Mar. Warden All Souls' Coll.
Oxon. : Archdn. E. R. :
bur. York Minster.
38. 1493. Hugh Trotter.f
27 Mar. Master Pembroke Hall,
Camb. : Treasurer York :
bur. York Minster.
39. 1503. Thomas Dalby.f
12 Sept. Archdn. Richmond : Privy
Councillor : bur. York
Minster.
40. 1526. Thomas Winter.
March. Son of Card. Wolsey : Dean
Wells : Archdn. York
and Cornwall.
41. 1543. Reginald Lee.
8 June. Kinsman of Abp. Lee.
PREVIOUS LISTS.
30. 1453 Laurence Booth.1
Chanc. : Bp. Durham :
Abp. York.
31. 1457. John Routh.2
Bp. Exeter.
32. 1465. Henry Webber.3
33. 1466. Peter Taster.*
34. 1468. Thomas Scot,5 surnamed
Rotheram.
Bp. Rochester ; Lincoln :
Chanc. : Abp. York.
35. 1472. William Potman.6
36. 1490. Hugh Trotter.7
37. 1503. Thomas Dalby.
38. No date. Thomas Winter.8
Son of Cardinal Wolsey.
39. Reginald Lee*
1548. End of Collegiate Church :
Easter Day. Lee pensioned.
Those marked f died Provosts.
1 O. calls him Bouthe and dates 1437. Torre dates 1457.
'2 O. calls him Bouthe.
» O. dates 1461.
4 Dugdale dates 1469.
5 O. puts Thomas Scot between Trotter and Dalby. Dugdale omits him, and
Mr. Baildon dates him 1468 between Webber and Taster. In fact Rotheram was
never called Scot ; his name was probably not Scot ; and he was never Provost.
e 0. dates 1475.
• O. dates 1493.
8 O. dates 1525.
9 Poulson did not kuow of Lee. O. gives him without date. Dngdale and
Torre date him 1544.
BEVEELEY MINSTEE: CHAPTEE ACT BOOK.
A.D. 1286—1347.
Nassington.
xciij. — Die Purificationis Beatae Marias Yirginis A.D. supra- 132J.
dicto, Obiit Magister Johannes de Nassington^ dudurn hujus Death20f5ii
ecclesiae Canonicus, qui ante resigiiationem suam quae f acta fuit
per dimidium anni ante mortem suam,, capam pulcherrimam
Deo et Beato Johanni contulit, et alia multa bona huic ecclesiae
Beati Johannis contulit.
Cujus animas propitietur Deus. Amen.
Undecimo Kalendas Martii A.D. supradicto, Obiit Dominus 1321.
Nicholaus de Notingham, hujus ecclesiae Sacrista. Deati^omrNich
In Dei nomine. Amen. Nos Auditor venerabilis Capituli of Nottingham,
j sacrist.
Fete.] omnia bona dicti Domini Nicholai infra jurisdictionem Se uestration of
dicti Capituli existentia sequestravimus, Inhibentes sub poena
excommunicationis ne quis dicta bona alienet, etc. sessor-
Collatio Cancellarise Beverlacensis per Prsepositum.
Cyj. 2. — Nicholaus de Hugat, Praepositus ecclesiae [etc.]
Dilecto clerico nostro Magistro Alano de Cotum, presbitero, N
Salutem in Domino.
Ob grata probitatis merita et alia virtutum dona, quibus te Priest-
Dominus laudabiliter insignivit, volentes personam tuam, quam
speramus divina gratia fructum oportunum in dicta Beverla-
censi ecclesia processu temporis allaturam, favoris prosequi
benevolentias gratia amplioris, Cancellariam ejusdem ecclesiae
Beverlacensis vacantenx, et ad nostram collationem spectantem,
cum suis juribus et pertinentiis nniversis tibi conferimus,
intuitu caritatis. Yale.
Datis apud London vicesimo die Februarii A.D. m°cccmo cellorshipof
VOL. II.
Beverley.
Dated London.
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
24 March.
Proctors of N. of
Malton, Sacrist,
produce to
Letter of Canon
D. of Avenel to
instal him.
Admissio Domini Nicholai de Malton, Sacristse.
xciij. b. 2. — Nono Kalendas Aprilis A.D. supradicto, Johannes
de Eboraco, clericus, et Willelmus de Hugat, procuratores
Domini Nicholai de Malton, Sacristae, comparuerunt coram
nobis Auditore [etc.] et porrexerunt litteras reverendi viri
Magistri Dionisii Avenel, Canonici ecclesise praedictae, con-
tinentiae infrascriptas.
Domino Johanni de Kisindon seipsum.
Ad installandum Dominum Nicholaum de Malton in
Sacristia in ecclesia Beverlacensi per Dominum Praspositum
eidem collata seu procuratorem ejus, ac cetera quao in hac
parte fuerint facienda, vobis committo, quo ad me attinet,
vices meas.
Valetis. Datis Eboraci.
Hac die Lunae porrexerunt etiam nobis litteras praesenta-
tionis continentia8 infra script 88.
1321
24 Feb.
Provost N. of
Huggate to
Chapter.
Having conferred
the sacristy on
my clerk Nich.
son of Wm. of
Malton, of Hug-
gate, t
Please admit him.
Prsesentatio.
Reverendaa discretionis viris Yenerabili Capitulo [etc.],
Nicholaus de Hugate, Praepositus ecclesias praalibatae, Salutem
in eo qui est vera salus.
Quia dilecto clerico meo Nicholao, nato Willelmi de Malton
de Hugate, in dicta Beverlacensi ecclesia fructum, ut spero,
oportunum processu temporis allaturo, Sacristiam ejusdem
ecclesiae Beverlacensis per mortem Domini Mcholai de
Notingham vacantem, et ad collationern meam spectantem
cum suis juribus et pertinentiis universis contuli intuitu
caritatis.
Attentius vos requiro, quatinus dictum Mcholaum natum
praefati Willelmi ad eandem Sacristiam favorabiliter admit-
tatis.
Quod vestrum est in hac parte velitis ulterius exequi circa
ipsum. Prospere et diu in Domino valeatis.
Scriptum apud London vj Kalendas Martii anno gratias
millesimo cccmoxxjmo.
Quibus lectis exhibuerunt procuratorium suum.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 3
Procuratorium.
xciiij. — Noverint universi quod ego Nicholaus, natus Wil-
lelmi de Maltona de Hugate, clericus, in omnibus causis et Proxy of
Nicholas, son of
negotiis personam meam quahtercunque contmgentibus, wm.ofMaiton
*. : ', * -,. -i . ,. ., T. .. ofHuggate,
metis vel movendis, coram quibuscunque ludicibus ordinarns, clerk to Mr. J. of
. .. . J . York, and Wm.
deleg-atis, et eorum commissanis quibuscunque, quotiens me of Driffieid to act
in • • • ™ • nyr for him in obtain-
abesse vel adesse contigent, Dilectos mini 111 0 hristo Magis- ing possession of
trum Johannem de Eboraco et Willelmum de Driffeld, benefice.
clericos, procuratores meos ordino et facio [etc. as on p. 227.]
Et quia sigillum meum pluribus est incosrnitum sigillum sealed with Pro-
volt's 9P&1
Domini N. de Hugate, Praepositi ecclesise [etc.], apponi pro-
curavi.
Datis apud London v Kalendas Martii A.D. millesimo tre- Dated London,
centesimo vicesimo primo.
Admissio Cancellarii.
1322
xciiij. b. 1. — vj Kalendas Aprilis anno Domini supradicto 27 Mar*
Magister Alanus de Cotum comparuit coram Capitulo, Magis-
tro Dionisio Avenel et Domino Willelmo de Sothill, canonicis,
et Domino Johanne de Eisindon tune Capituli Auditore, of°Huggate st N'
Capitulum reprsesentantibus ; et porrexit eidem Capitulo
litter as domini Prsepositi in hsec verb a :
Yiris venerabilibus et discretis Reverendo Capitulo [etc.]
Nicholaus de Hugat, Praepositus ecclesias praelibatae, Salutem 20 Feb.
et sinceraa dilectionis augmentum continuum cum honore.
Quia dilecto clerico meo, Magistro Alano de Cotum, pres-
bitero, in dicta Beverlacensi ecclesia fructum ut spero opor-
tunum processu temporis allaturo_,Cancellariam dictas Beverla-
censis ecclesiae vacantem, et ad meam collationem spectantem,
cum suis juribus et pertinentiis universis contuli intuitu
caritatis ; Attentius vos requiro, quatinus dictum Magistrum
Alanum ad eandem Cancellariam favorabiliter admittentes,
quod vestrum est in hac parte velitis ulterius exequi circa
ipsum.
Prospere et diu in Christo valeatis. Scriptis apud London
xx die Februarii anno gratiae m°cccmoxxjmo.
Quibus lectis et intellectis, requisitus a Capitulo an vellet coatham said he
dictam Cancellariam acceptare, respondit se velle ipsam iuf he°couida e
B 2
BEVERLEY MINSTER I
cure of souls
with it.
He is admitted
on those terms.
benefice wSnt acceptare, sub tali protestatione, si ipsam cum beneficio
curato quod tune optinuit posset de jure et licite retinere ;
aliter non : protestabatur insuper se nolle priori beneficio
renuntiare propter ipsam Cancellnriam ullo modo.
Qua protestatione facta et per Capitulum admissa, ipsum
Capitulum dictum Magistrum Alanum ad dictam Cancel-
lariam admisit, salvo sibi in omnibus effectu protestationis
praedictae; et ipsum in spiritualibus per librum, et in tem-
poralibus per panem investivit.
Quibus actis, in habitu regulari juramentum praestitit con-
suetum, hoc excepto, quod in fine juramenti dixit, quod
residentiam faceret, nisi secum per ipsos vel per ipsum, ad
quos vel ad quern in hac parte dispensatio pertinet, esset
legitime dispensatum.
Quo prasstito, assignatoque ei stallo in choro, inductus fuit
in corporalem possessionem dictae Cancellariae per Dominum
Johannem de Eisindon, tune Camerarium, et ibidem pro-
testationem quam prius emiserat in Capitulo puplice recita-
bat, videlicet, quod dictam Cancellariam admiserat si earn
cum beneficio quod tune habuit posset de jure et licite
retinere.
Dispensation for
non-residence at
pleasure of
Chapter.
N. of Malton
admitted accord-
ingly by proxy.
24 June
assigned to him
for taking the
necessary oaths
in person.
Dispensavit Capitulum de non Residentia Cancellarii*
Eodem die Capitulum dispensavit cum dicto Magistro
Alano super non residentiam durante ipsa licentia seu dis-
pensatione ad beneplacitum Capituli antedicti.
xciiij. 2. — Quibus lectis et intellects dictum Dominum
.Nicholaum ad dictam Sacristiam in personas procuratorum
praedictorum vice Capituli admisimus, et in spiritualibus per
librum et in temporalibus per panem ipsum in personas
procuratorum, et ipsos procuratores nomine ipsius investivi-
mus, stallum in choro assignantes, et in corporalem posses-
sionem ipsius Sacristiae inducentes, juramento ab eisdem in
animam domini sui praestito corporali ; assignato dicto
Domino Nicholao in personas dictorum procuratorum, quod
compareat instanti festo Nativitatis Beati Johannis Baptistas
coram Capitulo ad praestandum personaliter juramentum,
prout ecclesia praedicta et officium suum in eadem exigunt et
requirunt.
* In later, sixteenth century, hand.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK.
Presentation and Admission of Grammar Schoolmaster.
xciiij. b. 2. — Kalendas Aprilis Idem Magister Alanus com- 1322
paruit coram Capitulo, supradictis canonicis et Auditore Mr 1 April.
Capitulum repraesentantibus. et Magistrum Gralfridum de coatham, chan-
TT7.. , . . , cellor, presented
Witeby,, cm contulerat regimen Scolarum grammaticahum Geoffrey of
, . T ° Whitby, whom
rJeverlacensium ad suain collationem spectantium, ad rasas he had collated
_ . . to Beverley
scolas sine praefmitione temporis regendas secundum anti- Grammar school,
- . r_ no term being
quatn consuetudmem hums ecclesise praesentavit : fixed according
r\ J £ ,- • i to ancient
Uuem secundum lormam prassentatioms de "persona sua custom. The
. r< ., , -i • • . . .-, . Chapter admitted
ractas. bapitulum admisit, et iniunxit sibi in virtute sacra- wm with an oath
. . - 1 • i , to teach school
menti prms prsestiti, quod ipsas scolas fidehter resrat, et faithfully and do
./..:'•»•-.. T i • -, . , all that custom
omma taciat et neri taciat, prout consuetudo nujusmodi eccle- required,
siae et scolarum praedictarum exigit et requirit.
xciiij. b. 3. — Quarto die mensis Aprilis A.D. supradicto 1322.
Defectus domorum Cancellariae taxabantur per vicarios et
perpetuos clericos chori ad centum solidos ; de qua pecunia
Magister Alanus nunc Cancellarius recepit de bonis Magistri
Roberti de Biham praedecessoris xxs. from MS pSe-
cessor's estate
£1.
Procuratorium pro procuratore faciendo.
ccxxvij. b. 2. — Venerandae discretionis viro domino Officiali 1322.
Curiae Eboracensis vel ejus Commissario generali, Capitulum chapt^Knofa
[etc.] Salutem [etc.].
Yestrae domination! Reverendae sisfnificamus quod nos ad They have ap-
. ,. . Pointed Mr.
comparendum coram vobis vel Oommissano vestro efenerah in Dennis Avenei,
. r . . their proctor, to
maiori ecclesia Eboracensi nac instanti die Mercurii. prox- meet the official
7 r for appointment
ima post Dominican! qua cantatur " quasi modo gemti/ ad ^pMrtowof
tractandum super procurator ibus, iuxta formam mandati to Parliament to
-,-»...-,-,... . T • T-» meet at York
Ke2*n inde directi ordiiiandis et ad instans Parha.mentum s weeks after
Easter.
apud Eboracum a die Paschae -proximo future in tres septi-
manas Deo favente celebrandunr, nomine totius cleri Ebora-
censis Dioccesis destinandis, necnon super omnibus et singulis
dictum mandatum regium contingentibus, et ad faciendum^
conficiendum et recipiendum quod ipsius mandati Regii na-
tura exigit et requirit, et ad substituendum alium procura-
torem loco sui, prout sibi et nobis visum fuerit expedire ;
Dilectum nobis in Christo Magistrum Dionisium Avenel, con-
canonicum et confratrem nostrum praesentium exibitorem,
nostrum facimus et constituimus procuratorem :
6
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
Ratum habentes habiturique et firmum quicquid dictus
procurator noster, seu substi tutus ab eodem fecerit in pras-
missis.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum praesentibus est
appensum.
Datis in Capitulo nostro ij Nonas A prills, A.D. m°cccnioxxij.
1322.
19 April.
The Company of
Vicars of the
Minster to Gil-
bert and Walter
of Yarwell.
Eeceipt for £20
bequeathed by
Canon ' J. of Nas-
sington for obit,
with Mass
for Dead at High
Altar on 1 Feb.
yearly.
Clause of Will,
They bind them-
selves to the
Chapter on pain
of suspension
and excommuni-
cation to perform
the obit.
Obitus J. Nassingtona.
xcv. — Universis pateat per praesentes quod Nos ccetus
Vicariorum ecclesiae Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis recepimus
de reverendis viris Executoribus testamenti felicis record a-
tionis Magistri Johannis de Nassington, dudum canonici
ecclesiae Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis, viginti libras ster-
lingorum per manus Dominorum Gilberti et Walteri de
Yarewell, nobis in testamento ipsius defuncti relictas, ad
comparandum annuum redditum sufficientem pro celebratione
et sustentatione anniversarii seu obitus sui, cum exequiis
mortuorum, et missa pro defunctis cum nota in choro dictae
ecclesiae, ad magnum altare, in vigilia Purificationis Beataa
Marias si in die Dominica no-n evenerit, et si in Dominica,
fiat in die praecedente, annis singulis imperpetuum facienda,
prout in clausula in testamento suo contenta quas per omnia
talis est continentiae.
Item lego vicariis ecclesiae Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis
pro obitu meo singulis annis perpetuis temporibus faciendo
viginti libras, Nee quicquam percipiant aut percipiat proventi-
bus illius redditus nisi qui in prasdicto anniversario meo per-
sonaliter interfuerint seu interfuerit, a priucipio usque in finem.
De qua quidem pecunia fatemur nos esse plenarie per-
pacatos.
Ad quern quidern obitum seu anniversarium ut praemittitur
perpetuis temporibus faciendum obligamus nos et successores
nostros, ac omnia bona nostra ac omnes redditus nostros co-
hercioni et districtioni venerabilis Capituli [etc.]. Ita quod
dictum Capitulum nos et successores nostros et omnia bona
nostra, si in factione dicti obitus seu anniversarii defecerimus,
aut successores nostri defecerint, quod'absit, per suspensionis
et excommunicationis sententias absque strepitu judiciali et
figura judicii compellere possit seu etiam cohercere.
In quorum omnium testimonium sigillum nostrum commune
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 7
praesentibus est appensum. Et quia sigillum * nostrum
pluribus est incognitum, sigillum praefati Capituli procura-
vimus hiis appendi.
Datis apud Beverlacum tertio decimo Kalendas Maii A.D.
m°cccmoxxij°.
Procuratorium pro subsidio, Rege petente.
ccxxvij. b. 3. — Venerabili in Christo'patri et domino Domino 1322.
Willelmo, Dei gratia [etc.], suum humile et devotum Capitulum
[etc.], Obedientiam [etc.]. wm.
Vestrse dominationi Reverendae significamus nos ad compa-
rendum coram vobis in ecclesia vestra Eboracensi, hac instanti convocation as*
die Lunae proxima post instans festum S, Johannis ante Por- asked by the
tarn Latin am ad tractandum vobiscum et cum ceteris praelatis fjf^JJ Monday
et procuratoribus cleri vestrarum civitatis, diocesis et pro- afterMay6-
vinciae super subsidio a Domino nostro Kege petito, et ad
faciendum ulterius quod communi deliberatione videbitur
statuendum vel etiam ordinandum; necnon ad consentien-
dum hiis quae communi judicio contigerint inibi fieri seu
etiam ordinari ; Dilectum nobis in Christo Magistrum Dioni-
sium Avenell, concanonicum et confratrem nostrum, exhibi-
torem, praesentium, facimus et constituimus procuratorem
ratum habentes habiturique et firmum, quicquid dictus pro-
curator noster fecerit in praemissis.
^aleat vestra dominatio Reverenda per tempora prospera
et longeva.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum est appensum.
Datis Beverlaci xj Kalendas Maii A.D. mmocccmoxxij°.
Acquietancia.
ccxxviij. 2. — Universis pateat per praesentes quod Ego^ 1322*
Johannes de Risindon, camerarius ecclesiae beati Johannis
Beverlacensis, collector et receptor expensarum factarum
circa communia negotia ecclesiae memoratae a festo Ascensionis
Dominicae A.D. m°cccmoxxjmo usque ad idem festum anno revo- Receipt for iss
luto, Recepi de Reverendo viro Domino Nicholao de Hugate,
Canonico et Praabendario Prasbendae S. Jacobi in ecclesia
memorata, per manus Willelmi de Hugate, procuratoris
* This seems to imply that they had not a common seal rather than that they
had,
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
1322.
1 June.
Letters Patent of
Chapter for
boycotting an
excommunicate.
.1322.
2 June.
Chapter to
Archbishop.
Clerks for orders ;
2 to be sub-
deacons.
2 to be deacons.
2 to be priests.
Tredecim solidos sex denarios et obolum, pro portione sua
dictarum expensarum, ipsum de praedicto tempore contin-
gente.
Pro excommunicate viiando.
ccxxviij. 3. — Universis [etc., as on p. 367 against J. de
Toutun. The offence for which he is excommunicated is not
stated.]
Clerici chori ad ordines.
ccxxviij. 4. — Venerabili [etc.].
To be sub-deacons : Adam de Queldrik and Thomas de Hal-
sam.
To be deacons : Geoffrey de Thriplowe and Hugh de Wan-
desford.
To be priests : Henry de Ketby and John Fitz Stephen of
Langtofts.
1320.
3 June.
Abp. Wm. Melton
to Chapter.
Receipt for 20
marks in part
satisfaction of
revenues of the
corrody, some-
times called "The
Archbishop's
share," during the
last vacancy of
the See.
Dated Southwell.
Acquietancia Archiepiscopalis*
xcvj. b. 2. — Noverint universi quod nos Willelmus permis-
sione divina [etc.] recepimus die confectionis praesentium de
Capitulo [etc.] per manus Domini Johannis de Swina, vicarii
ecclesise antedictee, viginti marcas sterlingorum, in partem
solutionis seu satisfactionis pro fructibus, redditibus et pro-
ventibus corrodii seu portionis nostrse, quocunque nomine
nuncupetur, quse ab aliquibus nuncupatur, " portio Archie-
piscopi " in eadem, provenientibus tempore ultimas vacationis
sedis Archiepiscopalis nobis debitis : De quibus yiginti marcis
dictum Capitulum acquietavimus per praesentes, sigilli nostri
impressione munitas.
Datas apud Sutwell tertio die mensis Junii, anno gratias
m°cccmo vicesimo; Et Pontificatus nostri tertio.
Acquietancia Archiepiscopalis. *
1321. xcv-j. b. 3. — Same as last but for 10 marks, and dated at
10 June. ^ J ,
Cawood.
* These receipts appear to be written here at the date of the third of the
series.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK.
xcvij. — Same as last, but dated Thorp, near York.
9
1322.
10 June.
Dictse tres acquietancise sunt in quodam magno cophino,
cum aliis acquietanciis super solutione decimarum.
Citatio quare non debet invocari brachium sseculare.
ccxxviii. b. — Capitulum [etc.]. Cum N. de B. ad install- 1322.
_ .. ....... . Form of summons
tiam A. de C. pro eo quod non paruit mdicatis. sit auctoritate to excommunicate
, . ... .to show cause
ordmaria in hac parte maioris excommunicationis sententia why he should
. not be arrested.
innodatus ac in eadem sententia ammo indurate perseverans,
claves ecclesiae nequiter contempnendo jam per quadraginta
dies et amplius pertinaciter perstitit in eadem, et sic ex parte
dicti A. petitur invocari brachium saeculare :
Yobis mandamus quatinus dictum N". citetis peremptorie
quod compareat coram nobis tali die, propositurus et osten-
surus quare ad ejus non debeamus rescribere captionem :
quid inde feceritis, etc.
Pro excommunicate vitando.
ccxxviij. b. 2. — Universis [etc. as on p. 367 against Rector
of Tunstal, name not given].
ccxxviij. b. 3. — [Testimonial in favour of Eoger of Bolton,
clerk, " in choro nostro diutius conversatus, adolescens bonse
famse."]
1322.
12 June.
1322.
13 June.
Taxatio domorum Sacristise.
xcvj. — ij Idus Junii A.D. supradicto Defectus domorum 1322.
spectantium ad Sacristiam de mandate Capituli visi fuerunt The Ju
per vicarios et perpetuos clericos chori, et estimati et taxati
ad quadraginta solidos, observatis omnibus quas requiruntur
in hac parte.
Litter a privata super prisona.
1322.
16 Juue.
ccxxviij. b. 4. — Reverendo et discrete viro Magistro
Roberto de Pickering, concanonico et confratri nostro, chapter toBt. of
Capitulum [etc.].
10
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
Some prisoners
claimed and
obtained by us
in the Arch-
bishop's Court,
have by mistake
been taken to
your prison
instead of to our
common prison.
A copy of claim
is enclosed.
Please hand them
over, as counsel
say that no
Canon may retain
prisoners in his
separate prison,
or can justify it
to the King on
complaint made.
Quum prisones per vestrum Johannem de Bernewile et
Mathaeum Dousing, auctoritate nostra in curia venerabilis
patris et donaini Domini Willelmi, Dei gratia [etc.] petiti
iiuperrime et optenti, ad prisonam vestram per errorem ducti
fuerunt per eosdem, qui ut nobis videtur ad communem
prisonam nostram debuerant adduci, et in eadem salvo cus-
todiri secundum vim, formam et effectum clamii nostri in
itinere justiciariorum inde facti, cujus copiam vobis trans-
mittimus prsesentibus interclusam ;
Quo viso vestras fraternitati placeat reverendge dictos
prisones nostrse prisonee communi facere liberari : atten-
dentes, quod nulli canonico per se secundum assertionem
juris peritorum aliquos prisones in propria prisona licet
retinere, nee si inde Domino Regi fieret querela, hujusmodi
factum advocare poterit quoquomodo ; Quid in praemissis
duxerit faciendum nos velitis per harum latorem reddere
certiores.
Yaleat vestra fraternitas reverenda per tempora prospera
et longeva. Datis Beverlaci xvj Kalendas Julii.
1322.
24 June.
Chapter to Wr.
of Harpham.
Super absentia.
xcvj. 2; xcv. — Capitulum [etc.] Waltero de Harpham,
uni de septem clericis ecclesige memoratee, Salutem [etc.] .
[License for non-residence for a year] .
Et haec licentia concessa fuit per Magistros Dionisium de
Avenel et Henricum de Carleton, et Dominum Willelmum de
Sothill, Capitulum repreesentantes.
1322.
24 June.
Chapter tc W.
of Harpham, one
of the 7 clerks.
Licence of non-
residence for a
year.
1322.
26 June.
Ralph of Whitby,
mason, to
Chapter.
Harpham*
xcvij. b. 2. — Capitulum [etc.] Waltero de Harpham, uni de
septem clericis [as in last].
Acquietancia pro opere>
xcvj. 3.— tlniversis pateat per praesentes> quod Ego
Kadulphus de Wihteby, Caamentarius^ Recepi de venerabili
Capitulo [etc.] per manus Dominorum Johannis de Swina et
* Why this is repeated does not appear.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 11
Johannis de Hornse, custodum operis beati Johannis prae- Beceipt for whole
. . . salary up to
dicti, totum salarium meum in antediclo Gapitulo, ratione whit Sunday,
. . . . . . . viz. 5 marks.
officii mei in eadem ecclesia debitum usque ad diem Pente-
costas A.D. supradicto. De quo quidem salario seu pensione
quinque marcarum fateor mini esse usque ad dictum diem
Pentecostes plenarie satisfactum.
In cujus [etc.] Datis Beverlaci vjto Kalendas Julii anno
supradicto.
xcvj. 4. — Die dominica proxima ante festum Apostolorum 1322.
Petri et Pauli, consecratus fuit Dominus Eogerus de North- canon Roger of
Northburgh.
i proxima a
bus fuit Don
burgh, canonicus, et praebendarius praebendae S. Andreae in
ecclesia [etc.l , in Episcopum ecclesiarum Coventrensis et consecrated
. Bishop of
Lichef eldenSlS. Coventry and
Lichfleld.
Conversatlo.
1322.
ccxxix. 2. — [Testimonial in favour of Philip Auger de so June.
Dudington, priest " infra jurisdictionem nostram per aliqua
tempora divina celebrando] ."
Relaxatio de sequestra Prsscentoriss.
xcvij. b. 3. — WiJlelmus permissione divina [etc.] Capitulo 1322.
f 4- ~1 4 July.
Let)C'J Abp. Wm. Melton
Volumus et mandamus quod sequestrum nuper ad manda- ** lter>
turn nostrum per vos in fructibus et proventibus Magistri
Eicardi de Insula, Praecentoris in ecclesia nostra praedicta
interpositum relaxetis. Ac cum idem Praecentor eandem
prascentoriam cum suis juribus et pertinentiis universis snowSiiiifto' °f
dilecto clerico nostro familiari Ricardo de Snaweshill ad fir- iJt^cSvHhe6611
mam dimiserit pro termino triennali, non obstante sequestro if5e!tst
hujusmodi, ipsum Eicardum de Snaweshill in dictis fructibus
durante dicti termino libere disponere permittatis. Yaletis.
Datis apud Thorp prope Eboracum iiij Nonas Julii, A.D. ?haotrPde.CBi8hop3
m°cccmoxxij°. et Pontificatus nostri quinto.
Weston*
xcvij. b. 4. — Die Sabbati proximo post diem Translationis 1322*
Si Thomas Martiris, videlicet, vjto Idus Julii A.D. supradicto, lojuiy.
12
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
Mr. Th. of
Harpham as
proctor of Canon
Th. of Weston
accepted S.
Andrew's pre-
bend, racated by
consecration of
Roger of North-
burgh as Bishop.
Magister Thomas de Harpham, procurator reverend! viri
Domini Thomae de Weston, canonici hujus ecclesiae S. Jo-
hannis Beverlacensis, in Capitulo nostro, coram religioso viro
Domino Abbate de Melsa, subexecutore et subprovisore cum.
Dominis Abbatibus de Thornton et Selby, collegis suis, con-
junctim et divisim ad inscripta specialiter deputato, ut per
processum inde habitum plenius continetur, praebendam S.
Andreae vacantem per consecrationem Domini Rogeri de
Northburgh in Episcopum Conventrensis et Lichfeldensis
nomine domini sui praedicti sub protestatione infrascripta
acceptavit, et earn domino suo virtute gratiae suae conferri.
1322.
16 July.
Rt. of Pickering
to Chapter.
Have received
copy of your
claim that
prisoners de-
manded by you
have been taken
to our prison by
mistake.
Be sure that it is
not my intention
to derogate from
the Chapter's
rights. So will
send some one to
Beyerley next
Friday to discuss
the matter as to
my prebendal
rights and settle
it or inquire into
it.
Mr. Robert gave
security for the
horses or 100s.
instead, if they
should belong to
the Chapter ;
and made Justices
for his gaol
delivery to sit in
his Prebendal
Hall.
Responsio litterse prsecedenti*
Gayol.
ccxxix. 1. — Yenerabili Capitulo Beverlacensi, Bobertus de
Pikering, concanonicus et confrater, Salutem et fraternam in
Domino caritatem ;
Litteras vestras et transcriptum clamii recepimus, inter
cetera continentes quod prisones vestra auctoritate Capituli
petiti, ad prisonam nostram sunt per errorem ducti. Constet
vobis pro certo quod nostrae intentionis non est juri Capituli
praejudicare, neque juri et libertati praebendas nostrae aliqua-
liter derogare, cum scriptum sit, quod ecclesiasticus ordo
confunditur nisi cuique sua jurisdictio conservetur. Ea propter
mittemus aliquos apud Beverlacum in instanti die Veneris,
qui tractabunt vobiscum pro nobis et jure prasbendas iiostras,
ita quod ex parte nostra nulla invenietur injuria : quia si
negotium sit planum, expedietiir ; si autem dubium, expedit
quod prorogetur, ut veritas inquiratur.
Valeat vestra fraternitas reverenda per tempora longiora.
Scriptum apud Thornton juxta Pokelington t xvj die
Julii.
Item vero Magister Robertus, praestita securitate Capitulo
de dictis equis seu de centum solidis pro eisdem, juxta aesti-
mationem inde factam Capitulo restituendam si ad Capitulum
deberent de jure et consuetudine ecclesiae pertinere, constituit
Justiciaries suos ad carcerem suum liberandum ; videlicet,
* See letter of Chapter 16 June, p. 409.
f Pocklington Church was annexed to the Deanery of York, temp. Henry I.
CHAPTER, ACT BOOK. 13
Thoinam de Burton, Ricardum Kece et Johannem de Berne-
vile, qui sederent in Aula Praebendae suae, circumastantibus setfree-
et sedent[ibus], et liberati fuerunt latrones sen prisones
memorati.
Compromissum*
ccxxix. b. 3. — In Dei nomine, Amen. Anno ejusdemm°ccmo 129f day.
nonagesimo secundo, die Jo vis proxima post festum Conver-
. • o -D r J XT *• 1, At Nottingham.
sionis b. .rauli, apud JNotmgnam. controversy
, ., . _ having arisen
Cum inter venerabilem virum Uominum Aymonem de between A™
~ T • , • n -r -i • deCarto, Pre-
Carto, praecentorem Jjugdunensem ac canonicum b. Jonaimis center of Lyons,
, r « •' i • • T i • Canon of Bever-
iseverlacensis, et Oapitulum et canonicos eiusdem ecclesiae, ley, and the
. ... , , , • V Tk . . . • Chapter and
super tructibus ad praebendam ipsius JJomini Avmonis spec- canons, as to the
-,.•'_ n.r fruits of his
tantibus et per ipsos canonicos detentis. ut dicebat ; dictus prebend,
. . . J . ,., . .. . Mr.J.ofPeni-
canonicis in contrarium asserentibus, esset matena quaestioms stone and the
exorta. Tandem mediantibus amicis cominunibus, dictis referred the
Dominus Aymo pro se, et Magistri Johannes de Peningston, arbitration of
Willelmus de Haxeby, Henricus de Carleton et Willelmus de Dean of York,
--..,,.. ,. .. . J binding them-
Lincoln dictae ecclesiae canonici, pro se et concanonicis suis et selves under
Capitulo praedicto, compromiserunt in venerabilem virum Ma- marks to be
gistrum Henricum de Neuwerk, tune Decanum Eboracensem, OrowntoaMde
submittentes se alte et basse ordinationi arbitrio et voluntati
ejusdem super praedicta petitione.
Ita quod citra festum Beati Michaelis proximo futurum
liceat sibi auditis rationibus utriusque partis, super praedictis
ordinare, statuere et arbitrari, quod viderit expedire. Cujus
decretum, arbitrium seu ordinationem partes praedictae per
sacramentum corporaliter prasstitum se inviolabiliter obser-
vare promiserunt, sub pcena centum marcarum ad opus
Domini Kegis Angliae levandarum a parte non observante
decretum, arbitrium seu ordinationem Magistri Henri ci
praedicti.
In cujus rei testirnonium sigilla praedictarum partium una
cum sigillo Capituli praedicti alternatim sunt appensa. Datis
die anno et loco supradictis.
Procuratorium compromissi.
ccxxix. b. 4. — Tenore praesentium pateat universis quod Nos 1293.
Capitulum [etc.] f acimus et constituimus procuratorem nostrum, * Apnl-
Power of attorney
* The other documents above this on this leaf were of the year 1322. This £J?toi?Cam>n!
and the next document may have been written here on vacant leaves at the time to act for the
,, , . . Chapter in the
of their execution. matter.
BEVERLEY MINSTER !
MagistrumHenricumdeCarlton,fratrem nostrum et concanoni-
cum, in causa seu negotio compromissi, quae vel quodvertitur
seu verti speratur, coram venerabili et discrete viro Magistro
Henrico de Neuwerk, Decano Eboracensi, inter nobilem virum
Dominum Aymonem de Quarto, confratrem nostrum, ex parte
una, et Nos ex altera, quibuscunque diebus locis et tempori-
bus ; dantes eidem plenam potestatem, consentiendi, faciendi
procurandi, pertractandi et procedendi in dictis causa seu
negotio secundum formam, vim, potestatem et effectum com-
promissi inter dictum Dominum Aymonem et Nos in dictum
Dominum Decanum facti, et inter Nos cirograffati, ac jurandi
quotiens opus erit in eisdem : ac omnia alia et singula nostro
nomine faciendi quae facere possemus praesentes personaliter,
pro ipso rem ratam haberi et judicatum solvi sub ypotecha
rerum nostrarum, exponimus cautiones,et hoc omnibus quorum
interest significamus per praesentes.
In cujus rei testimonium huic procuratorio sigillum nostrum
ad causas apposuimus.
Dato in Capitulo nostro iij Idus Aprilis A.D. m°ccm°xciijto,
praesentibus post festum S. Michaelis minime valituris.
1322.
29 July.
Assessor to Canon
Th. of Weston.
List of the dates
of Papal provi-
sions for next
vacant prebend
held by persons
already admitted
as Canons.
gratiarum Ganonicorum.
xcv. 3. — Suo domino Eeverendo Domino Thomae de Weston,
Canonico ecclesiaa [etc.] suus J. de Risindon, humilis minister
ecclesiae praedictae, Se ipsum totum cum devotis reverentia
et honore.
Dataa gratiarum omnium admissorum auctoritate Capituli
nostri praebendam expectantiurn vestrae dominationi tenore
praesentium constent.
Data gratiaa Domini Francissi de Forge pennatibus pridie
Idus Augusti ante solempnia consecrationis sanctissimi patris
Domini Johannis divina providentia Papaa xxij.
Data gratiae Domini Roberti de Riston xiij Kalendas
Aprilis, pontificatus ejusdem PapaB anno primo.
Data gratiaa Domini Philippi de Crosby xiij Kalendas
Aprilis anno pontificatus ejusdem secundo.
Data gratiaB Domini Johannis Berchamsted . . Aprilis
factaB Dominae Isabellae Reginae . .*
* The MS. here becomes illegible. The words 3 or 4 Kal. Augusti can dimly be
discerned in the last line. There seem to be two or three other holders of Papal
provisions mentioned, hungrily waiting for the next vacant prebend.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 15
Conversatio.
ccxxx. b. 1. — [Testimonial in favour of Dominus Adam de 1322
Sledmer, capellanus, infra jurisdictionem nostram in villa
Beverlaci divina celebrasse . . per triginta annos et am-
plius.
The like in favour of John of Siglesthorn, deacon, clerk,
in ecclesia nostra diutius conversatus.j
Captio.
Nbbili viro Domino Simoni le Warde, Yicecomiti Ebora- 1322
censi. Prsepositus et Capitulum [etc. as on p. 144. against 20 August.
r n -i Chapter to Sir
J. Gretehefde de Brumfletl. simonof ward,
Sheriff of York-
shire.
Writ to arrest
~ ~ . . excommunicate,
Contra detentores travarum. Captio. Et emanawt ad instantiam J. Greatheadof
n i -n-i ' • > ' ' 7 T* ^ Broomfleet.
B. de Pikenng pro travis sms de Brantingham.
ccxxxiij. b. — Praepositus et Capitulum [etc.], Venerabili 1322
viro et discrete Vicecomiti Eboracensi, Salutem in omnium 20 Aug.
Provost and
Chapter to the
V6n.6r8<bl6 in id
Cum inter cartas de libertatibus et privilegiis. quibus discreet sheriff
, , . ..,..-_ ,. . of Yorkshire.
Celebris memoriae mcliti Keges Angliae singillatim nos et
dictam ecclesiam nostram ob honorem Dei, ac grandem devo- charters of
-,,... /-, r> ci -r i liberties and
tionem quam ad gloriosissimum Gonfessorem. S. Johannem ; privileges which
1 . . . ' the illustrious
cums sacn corpons in eadem ecclesia conduntur reliquiae Kings of England
J;r. have severally
recolendas, laudabihter decreverunt, et voluerunt "perpetuis decreed for the
. honour of God
temporibus libere et pacmce gaudere et uti, tarn a domino and their great
r. . _. . devotion to the
nostro Kege illustri qui nunc est quam a felicis recordationis glorious confessor
., . i • -r. -i i . s- John' that we
progemtoribus suis, praeclans Eegibus Anghae, pro salute and our church
should use for
ammarum antecessorum suorum et suarum, nobis sub suis ever, sealed
.".,!• i •, • . ' as well by the
sigillis contectas, auctoritateque et pietate sua regia appro- present King as
batas, ratificatas et confirmatas, nonnullae cartae eorumdem cessors, are some
et praecipue clarae memorise Johannis et Henrici quondam especially of
, . , , . , , Kings John and
Kegum Angliae has continuant clausulas et tenorem. Henry.
Carta Johannis, videlicet , ista verba :
Johannes, Dei gratia Eex Angliae, Dominus Hibernias et 5j0hn.
Dux Normanniae et Aquitanias, Comes Andegaviae, Justitiariis
Angliae et Yice-comitibus Eboracshire, Salutem.
Mandamus omnibus hominibus de Holdrenesse, firmiter
prsecipientes, quod sine conditione et difficultate reddant de
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
doors of the
granges, as we do
from our de-
mesnes on the
Wold.
Failing which,
whichever of you
is first asked,
is to seize the
bodies and goods
of those whom
the Provost and
Chapter denounce
to you as excom-
municate for this
cause, and hold
them in prison
till they have
made full satis-
faction.
1204.
carucis suis ad hostia grangiarum suas travas Sancti Johannis
Beverlacensis per manum propriam, vel servientium suorum,
sicut facere solebant, antequam travae illae datse essent ad
firmam, cum etiam sic f aciamus de dominicis nostris in Waldo
similiter tarn in dominicis nostris quam alibi ; quod si non
fecerint mandamus vobis et praecipimus, quatinus vos vel alter
vestrum, qui primus inde requisitus fuerit, eorum corpora et
catalla capi faciatis ; quos Praepositus et Capitulum Beverla-
cense vobis propter hoc denuntiaverint excommunicatos, et
tarn diu incarcerates secundum consuetudinem Anglias et liber-
tatem Beverlacensis ecclesiae teneri faciatis, donee praedictis
Praeposito et Capitulo Beverlacensi inde fuerint plenarie
satisfactum.
Testibus Domino Waltero, Rotomagensi Archiepiscopo ;
Willelmo, comite Arundeliae ; Willelmo Briwer ; apud Roch
nono die Novembris anno regni nostri quinto.
Clause, John's
and Stephen's
Charters.
Ac aliunde plerique in cartis tarn ejusdem Johannis, quam
Stephani Eegis prasdictorum de verbo ad verbum, talis clausula
sic expressa :
We command
that all who
detain S. John's
thraves, given by
our ancestors in
free alms to the
use of the Provost
and clerks of
Beverley shall,
without awaiting
any further com-
mand, be taken
and kept in
custody till they
have made full
amends.
Volumus etiarn et firmiter praecipimus quod omnes deten-
tores travarum Sancti Johannis collatarum ab antecessoribus
nostris in liberam elemosinam, vel ab aliis, in usus Praepositi
vel clericorum Beverlacensium, qui a praedicto Praeposito et
Capitulo fuerint excommunicati propter ipsarum travarum
detentionem, vel propter alium excessum, ad mandatum prae-
dicti Praepositi et Capituli, etiam non expectato alio mandato,
secundum consuetudinem regni nostri, a Vice-comite Ebora-
censi et Ballivis nostris de Eboracschire capiantur et tene-
antur, donee id praedictae ecclesiae et Praeposito plenarie
emendetur.
We therefore by
the authority of
these liberties
declare J. Great-
head of Brom-
fleet excommuni-
cate for 40 days
and upwards, and
still persisting in
his contempt, and
require you to
seize and keep
him in safe
custody until he
has given com-
petent satis-
faction.
Nos, auctoritate libertatum et privilegiorum nostrorum
hujusmodi, Johannem Grethefd de'Brunfleet, per nos auctori-
tate nostra ordinaria in hac parte ob ipsius contumaciam et
offensam majoris excommunicationis sententia innodatum, in
ea per quadraginta dies et amplius animo indurato pertinaci-
ter perseverasse, et adhuc, contemptis clavibus ecclesiae,
perdurare, Yobis tenore praesentium nuntiamus, mandantes
quatinus,, ad insolentiam praedicti rebellis salubriter repri-
mendam, ipsum juxta vim, form'am, et effectum libertatum et
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 17
privilegiorum nostrorum praedictorum, alio non expectato
mandate, per vos et Ballivos regies, secundum consuetudinem
regni AngliaB capi, deteneri, et salvo custodiri faciatis, donee
nobis et prasfatae nostrao ecclesise de excessu, quare excom-
municatus existit, satisfecerit competenter.
Testimonio praesentiuin, quas sigilli nostri munimine feci-
mus roborari.
Datas in Capitulo nostro Beverlacensi xx° die mensis
Augusti. anno Domini millesimo cccmoxxij°.
Taxatio. Paston.
xcix. (xcviij. missing). — Quintodecinio Kalendas Octobris 1322.
A.D. supradicto Capitulum ad petitionem et instantiam Magistri
Thomae de Paston, procuratoris reverendi viri Magistri
Benedict! de Paston, Canonici et Prsebendarii praebendae S. °fs-Andrew.
Andreas in ecclesia S. Johannis Beverlacensis, injunxit 7 yicars 2 clerks
Dominis Alano de Humbelton, Roberto Siglesthorn, Hugoni
de Otringham, Thomae de Grimesby, Wilielmo de Melton,
Johanni de Hornese et Johanni de Harpham, vicariis,
.* . • ' - ,
Johanni de Amkotes, Johanni le Porter, clericis de Berfella, proctor of Mr.
.... . Benedict of
et aliis beneficiatis in dicta ecclesia, ut accederent ad domos Paston< now pfe-
praebendales dictae praebendae, et viderent in quo statu Domi-
nus Rogerus Conventrensis et Lichfeldensis Episcopus, dudum
dictae praebendae praebendarius, ipsas dimisit, et in quo statu
ipsas recepit; quid ad defectus dictarum domorum reparan-
dum a praedecessore suo recepit, et quid apposuit, et qui
defectus proveiierunt suo temper e.
Qui, visis omnibus defectibus ipsarum domorum, ipsos de- Assessed them at
fectus ad xlu. taxaverunt. Dicunt etiam quod dicti defectus These diiapida-
tempore Domini Johannis de Sandal, praedecessoris dicti underaj?ofed
Domini Rogeri, et ipsius Domini Rogeri imminebant. Dicunt of N^thbwrth^
etiam quod defectus dictarum domorum post consecrationern wa^made Bishop
Domini Johannis de Sandale in Episcopum Wintoniensem ad diiSdaSf the
xx11. taxabantur; de qua pecunia Domiiius Johannes de SfoTwSch^
Swina, procurator dicti Domini Rogeri, recepit duas marcas p^ctorSy got
et dimidiam tantum et non plus, ut asserit, licet exactam
diligentiam adhibuerit. Dicunt etiam quod dictus Dominus
Rogerus in novo muro circa manerium faciendo, et in pluri- repairs-
bus defectibus dictarum domorum reficiendis, apposuit xvij
marcas iijs et iiijd.
Memorandum quod dictus Magister antedictus nichil de
VOL. II. C
18
BEVEKLEY MINSTER.
Mr. Fasten only
got £5 out of the
£40 and spent
AS 16s. 2d. in
repairs.
1322.
The prebend was
vacant from
27 June to 14
Sept.
The mesne profits
accruing to the
2 Canons Resi-
dentiary,
H. of Carlton
and D. Avenel,
stated.
xlh nisi centum solidos recepit memoratos, et quod expendit
in reparatione earundem domuum viiju xvj8 et ijd.
Fructus tempore vacationis spectant ad Capitulum.
xcix. 2. — Memorandum quod dicta praebenda S. Andreae
vacavit a die Dominica proxima ante festum Sanctorum
Apostolorum Petri et Pauli, A.D. supradicto, usque ad diem
Exaltationis S. Crucis proximo sequentem.
Memorandum etiam quod fructus et proventus dictae prae-
bendae medio tempore provenientes spectant ad Capitulum ;
videlicet, ad Magistros Henricum de Carleton et Dionisium
Avenel eodem anno residentiales, et debentur eisdem duobus
canonicis, videlicet, pro corrodio per praedictum tempus :
De decimis bladi de Tiketon collectis ante
admissionem dicti Magistri Benedicti . iiij marcae
De travis de Cotingham collectis ante ad-
missionem dicti Benedicti . . . xlvs iiijd
Travis de Ulferton et Willardeby . . dimidia marcae
Travis de Skiteby .... dimidia marcae
Pro duabus partibus travarum de Brunne . x marcae
Pro duabus partibus travarum de Brunham . ij marcas
1322.
18 Sept.
Ordination in
Minster.
2 acolytes.
2 priests.
Clerici ordinati.
ccxxx. 5. — Die Sabbati in quatuor temporum ordinati
fuerunt in ecclesia [etc.] viz. die Sabbati proxima ante diem
S. Mathaei :
Johannes de Sutton >
J. Binder $
ad ordinem acolitatus.
Petrus de Patrmgton > .,
nir-j j rn i. /ad ordinem presbiteratus.
G-alfridus de loppenam >
1322.
24 Sept.
Conversatio.
ccxxxj. 1. — [Testimonial in favour of J. of Siglesthorn]
liber et legitimus in ecclesia nostra diutius conversatus.
1322.
2 Oct.
Procuratorium qusestoris.
ccxxxj . 2. — [Appointment of J. of Stork, collector for
fabric in city and diocese of York, at pleasure of Chapter.]
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 19
Littera privata Domino Thomse de Westona.
Nota Qualiter fructus prsebendarum tempore vacationis . 009
pertinent ad ecclcsiam de consuetudine. i20ct.'
Chapter to Canon
Non emanavit. Th.ofWeston,
rector of Adwell.
xcix. b. — Capitulum [etc.] Thomae de Weston concanonico
et confratri nostro rectori ecclesiae de Addewell, Lincolniensis
Diocoesis, Salutem et fraternam in Domino caritatem.
Cum, secundum consuetudinem ecclesiae nostrae optentam The profits of
et fhlactenus approbatam et etiam usitatam. fructus et belong to
» j . -, • , . Chapter. You
proventus praebendarum in ecclesia nostra vacantium tempore took s. Andrew's
... -, ,.. . . prebend, in virtue
vacationis earundem quahtercunque provementes in usus ofpapaipro-
nostros cedere debeant pariter et convert! : Ac vos, vacante tfenuoiy if itvM
nuper prasbenda altaris S. Andreas in ecclesia memorata, wire admitted1
per consecrationem venerabilis in Christo patris Domini SameCCondition.
Rogeri de Northburg, dudum concanonici et confratris received coJrody
nostri, dictae praebendae praebendarii, ipsam praebeiidam, which byeiaw and
virtute gratiae in dicta ecclesia munificentia appostolica vobis beioof teyo*
factae coram subexecutore vestro si vobis deberetur_, et non
aliter, ut intelleximus, acceptastis, et etiam vobis conferri
et inductionem in corporalem possessionem ejusdem vobis
fieri conditionaliter ut praamittitur, procurastis ; quibus taliter
habitis et optentis proventus corodii in Bederna ad dictam
praabendam spectantes, ad nos de jure et consuetudine
memorata et ad nullum alium pertinentes, indebite percepistis,,
necnon de aliis fructibus ejusdem praebendae ordinastis et
disposuistis pro vestro libito voluntatis, in nostri juris et
consuetudinis elusionem et praajudicium manifestum.
Cum igitur appareat evidenter dictam praebendam vobis Pay it back aud
all other profits
non fuisse debitam virtute gratiae vobis f actae, nee proventus received by
you before the
vestros esse, quos taliter percepistis : Vos tenore praesentium
requirimus et rogamus et etiam monemus, quatinus infra tres
septimanas a receptione praesentium continue computandas,
quarum una septimana pro prima monitione, secunda pro
secunda_, et tertia pro tertia, et peremptoria, vobis cedant, penalty.
de proventibus dicti corodii, quos medio tempore percepistis,
et omnibus aliis si qua ante admissionem Magistri Benedict!
de Paston, nunc dictaa praebendae praebendarii percepisti,
curetis satisfacere competenter, sub pcena canonica, quam
si de praamissis non satisfeceritis, poteritis in eventu non im-
merito formidare.
Et quid in praemissis duxerit faciendum, nos per vestras
c 2
20
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
1322.
[20 Oct.]
If the towns-
people make
composition for
town and church
as Ripon did,
well.
If sudden danger
comes take Sir
Alan with you
and no one else,
and secretly place
the relics of
Saints and inner
chest [of S. John's
Shrine] in the
treasury in the
best place you
know.
And if great
necessity arises
remove the silver
plates of the
outer chest and
place them in a
certain place.
1322.
20 Oct.
Chapter to Robert
[Bruce], King of
Scotland.
We humbly pray
your Royal Ex-
cellency that for
pity's sake and
respect to the
glorious Con-
fessor, John of
Beverley, you will
take under your
protection us,
the Provost and
the Clerks of our
Church, our men
and goods, and
all our rents and
possessions, and
the Provost's, and
the whole liberty,
so that we and
they may receive
no damage from
your men, and so
deserve the
intervention of
the glorious
Confessor with
God for you.
litteras infra dictum terminum curetis reddere certiores;
super porrectione praesentiuin vobis facta latori praesentium,
jurato nostro adhibebimus plenam fidem.
In Domino feliciter valeatis.
Datis Beverlaci iiij Idus Octobris A.D. m°cccmoxxij°.
ccxxxj. b. 2. — Salutem quam sibi.
De compositione per nos pro ecclesia cum Scotis facienda,
non secutis* Decanus nee nos quid sit faciendum. Sed si
illi de villa pro se et villa et ecclesia velint componere, sicut
illi de Riponia alias fecerunt, bene potemnt.
Si vero periculum immineat, assumatis Dominum Alanum
vobiscum, et secrete, nullo alio sciente, ponatis reliquias
Sanctorum, et interiorem capsulam, in tesauraria in loco quern
nostis ad hoc meliorem. Et si ingereret major necessitas,
potestis amovere laminas argenteas ab exteriore capsula et
reponere in loco tuto.
Yalete.
Regi Scotiss : non emanavit.
ccxxxi. b. 3. — Excellentissimo principi Domino Roberto,
Dei gratia Regi Scotiae illustri, Humile Capitulum Beati
Johannis Beverlacensis, Reverentiam et honorem debitas
tanto Regi.
Vestrae excellentiae Regiae tenore praesentium humiliter
supplicamus, quatinus divinae pietatis intuitu et praedicti
gloriosi Conf essoris respectu, velitis suscipere in protectionem
et defensionem vestram Nos Praepositum et clericos ecclesige
nostrae praedictae, homines et res, redditus et omnes possee-
siones nostras, et ad nos et ad praedictum Praepositum perti-
nentes, necnon etiam totam libertatem ecclesiae praedictae, nos
et nostra, et ipsam libertatem et dictam ecclesiam cum con*
tentis manutenendo, protegendo et etiam defendendo, ut
nobis vel nostris vel etiam libertati praedictae molestia, dampna
aut gravamina per vestros, si placet, nullatenus inferantur.
Tantum, si placet, divinae caritatis et dicti gloviosi Confes-
soris intuitu facere velitis, ut dictum gloriosum Confessorem
* This seems to be what is written ; but does not appear to be sense. Perhaps
"secutis" is a mistake for "scit iste," and the meaning is that neither the Dean,
i.e., Robert of Pickering, nor the writer, who is the Provost, or a Residentiary
Canon, knows what to do.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK.
21
pro vobis et vestris interventorem apud Deum mereamini
optinere.
In Domino Jesu Christo prospere et feliciter valeatis.
Datis Beverlaci xx die mensis Octobris.
Regi Scotise : non emanavit*
ccxxxj. b. 4. — Universis pateat per praesentes quod Nbs
Capitulum [etc.] ad tractandum et componendum cum excel-
lente Rege, Domino Roberto, Dei gratia Eege Scotiae illustri,
vel cum suis, de pace et protectione ipsius Domini Regis, vel
suorum, pro nobis et ecclesia nostra praedicta, Domino Pras-
posito ecclesiae nostrae et omnibus bonis rebus ad nos et ad
dictum Praepositum pertinentibus, et pro libertate ecclesiaB
prasdictae, simul cum bonis in eadem ecclesia contentis ; Dilec-
tos nobis in Christo fratresWillelmum de Brunneby et Thomam
de Fitting, prassentium latores, nostros facimus et constituimus
nuntios speciales ; Ratum et gratum habituri quicquid iidem
nuntii fecerint in praemissis.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum praesentibus est
appensum.
Datis Beverlaci xx die mensis Octobris.
1322.
20 Oct
Letters Patent
of Chapter.
Appointment of
Wm. of Burnby
and Th. of Tit-
ling, special
messengers, to
treat with Sir
Robert, illustrious
King of Scotland,
for the Chapter
and Church, the
Provost, and all
its goods and
Badingham : emanavit ad instantiam Magistri II. de Carlton.
ccxxxj. b. 2. — Universis [etc.] [Certificate of excommuni-
cation of Robert of Badingham, executor of J. of Dinington,
late canon.]
1322,
10 Nov.
Super custodia PrsepositursB Commissio.'f
ccxxxij. — Edwardus Dei gratia Rex [etc.] Dilectis et fide-
libus suis Johanni de Lythegreynes et Johanni de Insula,
Salutem.
Ex parte canonicorum ecclesiaa S. Johannis Beverlacensis
nobis est ostensum, quod cum praepositura Beverlacensis ex
certis maneriis per progenitores nostros quondam Reges
Angliae ad sustentationem septem Canonicorum in ecclesia
1295.
23 Edw. I.
23 April.
The King to J,
of Lythegreynes
and J. de 1'Isle.
The Canons of
Beverley com-
* The fact that these two documents never issued goes to show that Beverley
was not actually taken or put to requisition by the Scotch as Ripon had been.
t Why this and the two following documents are here written does not
appear.
22
MINSTER:
plain that
whereas the
Provostry was
founded with
certain manors
given for the
maintenance of
7 Canons there,
and when vacant
the custody of it
and its profits
belong to them,
the Archbishop
having nothing
to do with it ;
yet Abp. John the
Roman after the
death of Provost
Peter of Chester
took the same
into his own
hands.
We have ap-
pointed you to
inquire into
the matter
by the oaths of
good men and
true of those
parts, and to
determine the
matter.
S. Johannis Beverlacensis perpetuo commorantium collatis
dudum fundata fuisset, cujus quidem praepositurse custodiam
dicti Canonic! singulis vacationibus ejusdem post decessum
Praepositi ejusdem loci cujuscunque a tempore fundationis
prsedictse semper hucusque pacifice habuerunt, et exitus inde
provenientes integre perceperunt, Ita quod Archiepiscopi
Eboracenses qui pro tempore fuerint, seu alius nomine eorun-
dum, de dicta custodia se in nullo intromiserunt ;
Johannes Archiepiscopus Eboracensis, post mortem Petri
de Cestri, nuper Pra3positi loci praedicti, homines dictorum
canonicorum ad custodiam dictae praeposituras per ipsos depu-
tatos inde vi et armis ejecit, et prasposituram illam cum
maneriis prasdictis in manum suam cepit, et exitus inde pro-
venientes sibi appropriavit, et eisdem Canonicis adhuc detinet
minus juste, et alia enormia eis intulit, in nostri contemptum
manifestum et contra f ormam collationis praedictas, et ipsorum
canonicorum grave dampnum et contra pacem nostram :
Et quia hujusmodi collationes progenitorum nostrorum illae-
sas conservare tenemur, et transgressionem hujusmodi si sic
perpetrata sit transire nolimus impunitam, assignavimus vos
ad inquirendum per sacramentum proborum et legalium homi-
num de partibus praedictis, tarn forinsecorum quam intrinse-
corum neutri partium suspectorum, per quos rei veritas melius
sciri poterit plenius de praemissis, veritatem, et ad transgres-
sionem illam audiendam et terminandam secundum legem et
consuetudinem regni nostri.
Et ideo vobis mandamus quod ad certos diem et locum quos
ad hoc provideritis inquisitionem illam sciatis et transgres-
sionem illam audiatis et terminetis in forma praedicta, facturi
inde quod ad justitiam pertinet secundum legem et consue-
tudinem regni nostri ; Salvis nobis amerciamentis et aliis ad
nos inde spectantibus.
Mandavimus enim vicecomiti nostro Eboracensi, quod ad
Certos diem et locum, quos ei scire facietis, venire faciat coram
vobis tot et tales probos et legales homines de partibus prae-
dictis, tarn forinsecos quam intrinsecos, neutri partium sus-
pectos> per quos rei veritas in praemissis melius sciri poterit
et inquiri.
In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus
patentes.
Teste me ipso apud Lammays xxiij0 die Aprilis anno regni
nostri vicesimo tertio.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 23
Pro libertate ecclesise Beati Johannis JBeverlacensis.
ccxxxrj. b. ]. — Edwardus Dei gratia Rex [etc.] Vicecomiti 1295.
•ETL. • ci i , 25 April.
Jliboracensi, baiutem. The King to the
Si Capitulum [etc.] f ecerit te securum de clamio suo prose- shirS.
quendo, tune pone per vadium et salvos plegiatos Johannem if the chapter of
Archiepiscopum Eboracensem, quod sit coram nobis a die
S. Johannis Baptistge in xv dies ubicunque tune fuerimus in
Anglia, ostensurum quare, cum idem Capitulum habere debeat, Spf john°[the
et a tempore quo non extat memoria habere consueverit,
talem iibertatem ; videlicet, quod cum aliquis pro latrocinio jlfne
aut aliqua alia transgressione ad domos alicujus canonicorum shouw'not haver
Capituli prasdicfci infra clausum ecclesiae preedictse fugerit, et liberty™61*1
se in ea juxta Iibertatem ejusdem ecclesiae tenere voluerit, that when anyone
nullus minister noster seu prasdicti Archiepiscopi de eo anyothw trespass
intromittere debet aut consuevit ; praedictus Archiepiscopus
per ministros suos Nicholaum le Denesmay qui pro quadam the dose, °nu0ses
transgressione sibi imposita ad domum Magistri Willelmi de King^r Arch-
Lincoln, canonici ecclesise predictae, infra clausum praedictum med^He^th him :
fugit_, et se in ea tenuit, a domo praedicta vi et armis extraxit,
et ipsum apud Beverlacum inprisonavit, et adhuc ibidem
detinetj in ipsius Capituli dispendium et non modicum, et Lincoln. 1
libertatis suaa praedictae lesionem manifestam, et contra pacem
nostram ut dicitur. Et habeas ibi nomina plegiorum et hoc
breve.
Teste me ipso apud Lammas xxv die Aprilis anno regni Dated at
nostri vicesimo tertio.
ccxxij. b. 2. — Edwardus Dei gratia [etc.] Vicecomiti Ebo- 1295.
racensi, Salutem.
Praecipe Johanni Archiepiscopo Eboracensi quod juste et
sine di.Iatione permittat Capitulum [etc.] habere communam Ordev Abp> John
pasturae in Beverlaco, quae pertinet a'd liberum tenementum
suum in eadem villa, et de qua Walterus de Grey, quondam
Archiepiscopus Eboracensis, injuste et sine judicjo disseysivit
praadictum Capitulum post primam transfretationem Henrici ^Mch lbpere' °f
Regis patris nostri in Yasconiam, ut dicitur ;
Et nisi fecerit, et prasdictum Capitulum fecerit te securum
de clamio suo prosequendo, tune summone per bonos sum-
monitores prasdictum Archiepiscopum quod sit coram Justi-
ciariis nostris apud Westmonasterium a die S. Johannis
BEVERLEI MINSTER :
1295.
25 April.
The same to
Order the same
Abp. to let Mr.
Wr. of Gloucester,
canon, have
common of tur-
bary in Beverley
belonging to his
freehold there, of
which Abp. Wr.
G-iffard disseized
Canon J. le Gras,
his predecessor.
Baptistse in xv dies ostensurum quare non fecerit. Et
habeas ibi summonitos et hoc breve.
Teste me ipso apud Lammas xxiij. die Aprilis anno regni
nostri xxiij.
ccxxxij. b. 3. — Edwardus Dei gratia [etc.] Vicecomiti
Eboracensi, Salutem.
Praecipe Johanni Archiepiscopo Eboracensi quod juste et
sine dilatione permittat Magistrum Walterum de Grloucestria
canonicum [etc.] habere communam turbariae in Beverlaco,
quae pertinet ad liberum tenementum suum in eadem villa, et
de qua Walterus Griffard, quondam Archiepiscopus Ebora-
censis, injuste et sine judicio disseysivit Johannem le Gras
quondam Canonicum ecclesiae praedictae, praedecessorem prae-
dicti Magistri Walteri, post primam transfretationem Domini
Henrici Regis patris nostri in Vasconiam, ut dicit.
Et nisi fecerit [etc.].
1295.
23 April.
ccxxxiij. 1. — Edwardus [etc. as in last, substituting com-
munam pasturae for communam turbariae].
1322.
12 Dec.
Chapter to Abp.
Wm. of Melton.
Procuratorium ad tractandum super subsidio petito a Rege.
ccxxxiij. 2. — Venerabili [etc. appointing Canon Dennis of
Avenel their proctor in Convocation to be held at York on
Friday next after S. Lucy's day (13 Dec.)].
182f
7 Jan.
Same to same.
Procuratorium [etc. as in last~\ .
ccxxxiij. 3. — Venerabili [etc. as in last, for Convocation
to be held on next law day after Conversion of S. Paul
(25 Jan.)].
132f
2 Jan.
On a report of
death of Rt. of
Pickering, pre-
bendary of SS.
Peter and Paul,
the Auditor puts
all his goods in
Chapter jurisdic-
tion under
sequestration.
Filtering. Vacat.
xcix. b. 2. — Pridie Idus Januarii A.D. supradicto, perlato
rumore de morte Magistri Koberti de Pikering, canonici et
praebendarii prasbendas sanctorum Petri et Pauli ;
Nos Auditor Capituli [etc.] omnia bona dicti Magistri
infra jurisdictionem dicti Capituli existentia ad dictum
Magistrum Kobertum spectantia qualitercunque, si obierit,
sequestramus ; Inhibentes sub pcena excommunicationis
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 25
majoris, quam proferimus in hiis scriptis, ne quis durante
sequestro nostro ad dicta bona manus apponat sen ea alienet,
amoveat vel occultet, in dicti defuncti dispendium et dicti
Capituli et jurisdictionem ejusdem elusionem pariter et
contemptum.
Littera super defections domorum prsebendse. Non emanavit.
c. 1. — Keverendissimo domino suo Domino Rogero, Dei 132^-.
gratia Coventrensis et Lichfeldensis Episcopo, suus si placet
Johannes de Risindon, Capellanus, minister ecclesiae Beati
Johannis Beverlacensis, Se ipsum humilem et devotum cum Lichfiew and
omnimodis reverentia et honore debitis tanto patri.
Vestrae dominationi significo venerandae, quod defectus The dilapidations
domorum praebendalium prsebendaa quam nuper in dicta
ecclesia habuistis, ad petitionem et crebram instantiam
Magistri Thomae de Paston, procuratoris reverendi et discreti
viri, Magistri Benedicti de Paston, nunc dictae praebendae
praabendarii^ vice et auctoritate dicti Capituli observatis, de me b^SFm.1 to
consuetudine dictae ecclesiae observanda, per viros fidedignos
beneficiatos seu portionarios in dicta ecclesia, ad quadraginta
libras sterlingorum sunt taxati, prout dilectissimus mihi in
Christo Dominus Johannes de Swina harum lator vestrae
dominationi explanare poterit viva voce; cui, si placet, in
dicendis praemissam taxationem contingentibus adhibere
dingnemini plenam fidem, et quid in praemissis ad honorem
Dei et Beatae Mariae Yirginis et S. Johannis praedicti et
omnium sanctorum dictae ecclesiae patronorum, vestra
dominatio duxerit faciendum, dicto Capitulo rescribere, vel
etiam mihi vestro. Ex eo quod vestrae dominationi praedicta Don't be angry
., ... -..,.., ,, . . that I write this,
scribo, michi vestra dominatio si placet nullatenus irascatur, who am ever
et si quid erga me vestrum volueritis invenietis me per Dei commands?7011
gratiam promptum et paratum ad vestra beneplacita et
mandata.
Yaleat vestra dominatio reverenda per tempora prospera
et feliciter successiva.
Scriptum Beverlaci xiiij die mensis Januarii.
Clerici missi ad ordines ad Siscientes (sic) .
ccxxxiiij. 1. — [To be Acolyte, Amandus of Fitteling; to be 132f.
Subdeacon, William of Midelton, Eichard of Wrelton, and s March.
BEVEKLEY MINSTER:
Orders
1 acolyte.
3 subdeacons.
1 deacon.
2 priests.
Thomas of Arnal ; to be Deacon, Adam de Queldrik ; to
be Priest, Eobert Rayner, John de Cave, and John de
Siglesthorn.]
1322.
Undated.
Letters Patent
of Chapter.
Miracles wrought
by the merits of
the confessor S.
John of Beverley
should be known,
so that his church
may be the more
crowded.
J. son of Rt.
Dandi of Melton,
the bearer, was
unable to stand
or walk for a
month ;
carried to the
Minster, for a
week crawling
about he sought
his living fiom
those entering :
On Sunday 22
Feb. he was
placed near
S. John's tomb,
and after praying
some time fell
asleep. Waking
at the time of
the Procession,
he found himself
cured, and stood
on his feet and
walked about the
church praising
God.
Wherefore we
pray you praise
Christ in his
glorious Con-
fessor.
De Miraculo.
ccxxxiiij. 2. — Universis S. matris ecclesise tiliis ad quos
pervenerit heec scriptura, Capitulum [etc.] .
Quum mira virtutum opera quaB per intercessiones et
suffragia dicti Sancti Deus onmipotens per suam invisibilem
potentiam operatur, ad laudem et gloriam ipsius et honorem
dicti Confessoris sui gloriosi, necnon ad consolationein
fidelium, expedit esse nota, ut nomen Altissimi ubilibet
exaltetur, et sua Majestas in eadem ecclesia majoris
venerationis et devotionis frequentia a Christi fidelibus
collaudetur :
Devotioni vestrse sincerse harum serie notum fiat, quod
cum Johannes films Roberti Dandi de Melton exibitor prse-
sentium fuisset occulto Dei judicio per diutinam infirmitatem
usu et solatio gressuum suorum totaliter desti tutus, ita quod
super pedes suos per mensem unum stare non posset nee
incedere ; quovis modo venit sibi in mente ut limina dicti
Sancti causa sanitatis adipiscendse visitaret : tandem advectus
ad ecclesiam prsedictam in eadem per unam ebdomodam
mansit reptando et serpendo, ab ingredientibus diebus sin-
gulis postulando victum suum : Die vero Dominica, videlicet,
octavo Kalendas Martii ad tumbam dicti Sancti portatus et
juxta ipsam tumbam positus, orationibus ibidem diutius
insistebat, et cum orationes aliquantulum protraxisset subito
dormiebat, evigilans vero hora, qua processio in eadem
ecclesia celebratur, se redditum sanitatis pristinae sentiebat,
stetitque supra pedes suos et per ecclesiam distabat,
laudans et glorificans Deum, qui ipsum sanitati restituit per
merita et suffragia dicti Sancti. Quocirca devotionem
vestram in Domino exoramus, ut Dominum nostrum Jesum
Christum in suo glorioso Confessore laudetis, qui est sanc-
torum omnium gloria et corona.
In cujus rei testimonium has litteras patentes sibi fieri
fecimus nostri sigilli munimine roboratas.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 27
Super inductione Cancellarii in corporalem possessionem.
xcv. 2. — Universis pateat per prassentes quod Nos Capitu- 1322.*
lum [etc.] litteras venerabilis viri Domini Nicholai de Hugat, LetteL^aumt of
Praepositi ecclesias antedictae, recepimus, tenorem continens CbaPter-
infrascriptum :
Viris venerabilibus et discretis Reverendo Capitulo etc. witness that Mr.
ut supra in proximo folio de admissione Cancellarii. duty admitted to
Harum igitur auctoritate et virtute litterarum dictum Chanc€
Magistrum Alanum ad dictam Cancellariam admisimus, et
ipsum, assignato eidem stallo in choro nostro, ac ceteris
omnibus debitis et consuetis in hac parte plenius observatis,
prout consuetude dictae ecclesiae exigit et requirit, in cor-
poralem possessionem dictae Cancellariae jurium et pertinen-
tiarum ejusdem induximus ut decebat.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum praesentibus est
appensum.
Datis Beverlaci vj Kalendas Aprilis A.D. m°cccT110xxij0.
Licentia super non residentia.
cvj.~ Capitulum [etc.] Dilecto [etc.] Alano de Gotham 1322.
Cancellario ecclesias memoratae [etc. as on p. 290] vj Kalendas Chapt7eftorclu
Aprilis. Chancellor.
License for non-
Commissio pro qUdestu. residence.
ccxxxiiij. 3. — Venerabili viro et discrete domino Officiali 1323.
Archidiaconi Lincolniensis, Capitulum [etc.] .
Quia mandatum Ricardi filii Laurencii Monchant de Lin-
colnia quaestoris elemosinarum fabricae ecclesiae nostrae pras- We have revoked
dictae ex certis causis et legitimis revocavimus, et ad hue
revocamus per prassentes : vos mutuae vicissitudinis optentu
et in juris subsidium, requirimus efc rogamus, quatinus regiam
protectionem bullam papalem, litteram seu litteras, necnon Weaskyouon
omnia monumenta ad petendas, colligendas et recipiendas
elemosinas dictae ecclesiae prasfato Ricardo facta seu tradita,
Thomas Gamell, civi Lincolniensi, et Thomas de Bradele,
clerico, procuratoribus nostris restituere, si placet, canonice
compellatis ; ipsum, si placet, nichilominus citando, quod
compareat coram nobis in ecclesia nostra Beverlacensi prae-
dicta quinto die juridico proximo post festum Assencionis
* These two documents are out of place. They ought to have been on p. 404.
28
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
next law-day
after Ascension
Day.
Domini compotum administrations suae quasstus prasdicti
redditurum.
Et quid inde feceritis nos dictis die et loco litteratorie si
placet certificetis, litteris vestris patentibus seriem istarum
continentibus.
Datis Beverlaci iiijto Nonas Aprilis A.D. m°cccnioxxiij°.
1323.
2 April.
Procuratorium qusestorum Lincolniensis diocoesis.
ccxxxiiij. b. 1. — [Appointment of Thomas Gamell, citizen of
Lincoln, and Thomas of Badle, of Lincoln, clerk, proctors to
collect for fabric, and also to get from Richard, son of
Laurence Monchant, the royal protection and other docu-
ments which he had, and do all other things useful for the
Minster and Chapter under direction of Mr. John of Lever-
ton, of Lincoln.]
1323.
12 April.
Mr. Wilfrid de
Gropo S. Petri
presented letters
to the Assessor.
10 April.
Canons Pickering
and Avenel to
Chapter's
Assessor, reciting
Archbishop to
Chapter.
According to
provision of Pope
John XXII. to
Mr. Wildf rid,
LL.D., and pro-
cess thereon we
have admitted
him to the pre-
bend held by Sir
Barnabas [Mala
Spina], vacant by
his consecration
as Bishop of
Luna.*
Admissio Magistri Guilfredi de Groppo S. Petri.
c. b. — ij Tdus Aprilis A.D. supradicto Magister Guilfridus
de Gropo Sancti Petri, hujus ecclesiae canonicus, comparuit
coram nobis Auditore et porrexit nobis litteras infrascriptas.
Robertus de Pikering et Dionisius Avenell, Canonici [etc.],
Discrete viro ejusdem Capituli Auditori, Salutem in Auctore
salutis.
Litteras venerabilis in Christo patris et domini Domini
Willelmi Dei gratia [etc.] recepimus in haec verba :
W. permissione divina [etc.], Dilectis filiis Capitulo [etc.].
Cum secundum formam litterarum gratiae per sanctissimum
in Christo patrem et dominum nostrum Dominum Johannem
divina providentia Papam xxij Magistro Guilfrido de Gropo
S. Petri, Decretorum doctori, concessae, ac processuum super
eis habitorum, eundem Guilfridum ad canonicatum et prse-
bendam, quos Dominus Barnabas nuper in dicta ecclesia
nostra optinebat, per consecrationem ejusdem Barnabos [sic]
in Episcopum Lunensem jam vacantes, prout in ipsis litteris
apostolicis et executoriis super hoc nobis directis plenius
continetur, admiserimus, qualenus de jure ac virtute gratiae
apostolicse supradictae tenemur, in dictae nostrae Beverla-
* The see was transferred to Sarzana in 1465.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 29
censis ecclesiae canonicum atque fratrem, salvis nobis et
eidem ecclesiae nostrae exceptionibus et defensionibus omni-
bus competentibus et competituris, tam contra personam
quam gratiam et executionem omnem in hac parte habitam
et habendam: Salva etiam nobis potestate conferendi
canonicatus et praebendam quoscumque, ac officia et beneficia
quaecumque, cum in ecclesia praedicta vacaverint, quae prae-
dicto Magistro Guilfrido debiti vel debita non fuerint virtute
gratise supradictae :
Vobis mandamus quatinus circa dictum Magistrum Gruil- Sfe matter rt in
fridum, seu ipsius procuratorem, ulterius exequamini quod
est vestrum. Yalete.
Datis apud Cawod vij Idus Aprilis A.D. m°cccmoxxiij° et Dated cawood.
Pontificatus nostri vjto.
Auctoritate itaque per executores dicti Magistri Guilfridi
et virtute processus inde habiti, necnon litterarum dicti
Domini Archiepiscopi nobis demandatarum ipsum Magistrum
Guilfridum, licet absentem a Capitulo, quantum ad nos per-
tinet, admisimus in canonicum et in fratrem.
Vobis mandamus quatinus eundem Magistrum Guilfridum,
vel ipsius procuratorem ejus nomine, in corporalem posses- person or by
sionem ejusdem praebendae, cum omnibus juribus et perti-
nentiis ad eandcm spectantibus, vice nostra et nomine nostro,
inducatis, recipientes ab eodem de observando libertates
statuta et consuetudines ecclesiae praedictae, cum aliis articulis
consuetis, solitum sacramentum. Valete.
Datis Eboraci iiij Idus Aprilis anno gratiae m°cccmoxxiij°. Dated York
Super inductions
j.
•
c. b. 2. — Universis pateat per praesentes quod nos Capitu-
lum [etc.] litteras venerabilis [etc.] Willelmi Dei gratia
[etc.] recepimus tenorem continentes infrascriptum :
[etc.] recepimus tenorem conti:
Willelmus permissione [etc.]
cj. — Hujus igitur auctoritate et virtute litterarum et pro-
cessus super supradicta .... * ipsum Magistrum Gu ....
admisimus in canonicum et in fratrem ipsumque praestito ab
eodem .... que eidem stallum in choro et locum in
MS. torn away.
30
BEVEULEY MINSTER :
Capitulo, ac ceteris omnibus .... parte plenius observatis,
prout consuetude dictae ecclesise ex[igit] .... dieted prae-
bendae cum juribus suis et pertinentiis univer ....
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum praesentibus est
appensum .... Aprilis A.D. m°cccxxiij.
Eodem die ISTos Auditor Capituli praedicti admisso per
.... Magistro Guilfredo in canonicum et fratrem, et omni-
bus aliis qua3 .... consuetudine dictae ecclesiae requiruntur
rite peractis omnes per .... consecrationis dicti Domini
Barnabos usque ad praesentem diem in .... Siglesthorne
vicarii ecclesiae Beatae Marias Beverlacensis dictas praebendae
. . . . infra jurisdictionem nostram existentia ad ipsum
spectantia .... vice Capituli memorati, ut inde eidem
Capitulo responde . . fuerit requisitus.
1323.
15 April.
Pilufortis,
Cardinal
Priest of St.
Anastasia to
Chapter.
Complains that
they have usurped
yearly garbs of
hay from his
church of
Hornsea.
Cardinalis de Hornesse.
ccxxxv. b. 3. — Honorabilibus et discretis viris Domino Prae-
posito et Capitulo Beverlacensi amicis suis dilectis Pilufortis
miseratione divina tituli S. Anastasiae presbiter Cardinalis,
Salutem et dilectionem sinceram.
Nuper ad nos non sine admiratione pervenit, quod vos quas-
dam trabas avenarum annuas de ecclesia nostra de Hornse
usurpastis et usurpare intendistis indebite ac injuste, nullum in
illud jus penitus obinentes, nisi illud quod potentia per nostram
absentiam vobis praestat, Quare licet de praadictis propter
dampnum proprium merito conturbamur, vos tamen scire
volumus, quod magis ac magis propter ecclesiam de Hornese
turbamur ex illo omnino disposito ne sub nostri regiminis tem-
pere jura ei depereant et ne sibi servitus indebita impouatur et
id circo rogamus, quatinus ne super praedictis ad dominum
nostrum contra vos oporteat habere recursum, et quasi aliis com-
puisivis immediis laborare, ab usurpatione dictarum trabarum
totaliter abstinentes arripiatis, et percepta per vos Magistro
Kaymundo procurator! nostro integraliter restituere procuretis.
Datis Avenione die xv mensis Aprilis.
Acquietancia Qusestoris.
1323. ccxxxv. — Universis pateat per praesentes quod nos Johannes
7 April. ^e gwina et Johannes $e Horns.ee, Custodes operis ecclesiae
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fetc.l audivimus compotum Ricardi filii Laurencii Monechant* Betters Patent of
.... , f J. of Swine and J.
quaestoris dictae ecclesiae in civitate et diocoesi Lincolniensi de °f H°msea,
Masters of the
toto tempore, quo ofncmm quaestoris nomine praefatae ecclesiae Works-
in eisdem civitate et diocoesi usque ad praesentem diem certificate that
Richard, son of
exercuit. Laurence Moan-
chant has passed
Quo audito et reddito, allocatisque de jure allocandis ; quia MS accounts as
invenimus dictum Ricardum dictum officium fideliter exer- fabric in Lincoln
city and diocese,
cuisse. et de boms eidem ecclesiae in eisdem civitate et and restored aii
' . documents be-
dioccesi. pia fidelium devotione datis et etiam assignatis lodging to tuat
3 " . office..
fideliter respondisse, et omnia munimenta ipsum officium
contingentia per nos sibi liberata, et per ipsum a diversis
praelatis et ordinariis impetrata nobis restituisse et fideliter
liberasse, ipsum ab omni onere compoti usque ad praesentem
diem, quatenus ad nos attinet, absolvimus et quietum dimitti-
mus per praesentes.
Et quia sigilla nostra [etc.] sigillum venerabilis Capituli
[etc.] procuravimus hiis appendi in testimonium praemis-
sorum.
Datis Beverlaci xv Kalendas Maii A.D. m°cccmo xxiij.
ci. 3. — [Half leaf torn away.] 1323.
Venerabili in Christo patri Domino Rogero Dei gratia Con-
ventrensi et Lichfeldensi Episcopo S. Johannis
Beverlacensis, Salutem, reverentiam et honorenu . .
Yestrae paternitati reverendae notum fiat quod
defectus domorum praebendalium praebendae quam nuper in
dicta nostra ecclesia vestro et praedecessori
vestri provenient [es] ad petitionem et crebram instantiam
Magistri Thomae .... procuratoris reverendi viri Magistri to ten you.
Benedicti de Paston, concanonici et confratris nostri, nunc
. . . praebendae praebendarii vice et auctoritate nostra, obser-
vatis in hac parte de consuetudine dictae . . . observandis,
per viros fidedignos beneficiatos in ecclesia antedicta nee
vobis nee sibi suspectos, ad xlh sterlingorum sunt ut nobis
retulerunt judicialiter estimati, prout diiectus nobis in Christo
Dominus Johannes de Swina harum lator vobis dicere poterit
viva voce.
Yestrae igitur paternitati placeat venerandae praedictam Please send the
, . -| . . . T P . ., amount, or part
summam pecumae, vel partem ipsius, pro dictis derectibus of it by bearer,
reparandisj dicto Magistro Benedicto vel ejus procuratori what you propose
harum [litterarum latori] seu per alium facere liberari. Et
quid in praemissis ad honorem Dei et Beatae Mariae semper
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BEVERLEY MINSTER
virginis et S. Andreas apostoli et S. Johannis praadicti vestra
paternitas duxerit faciendum nobis rescribere per eundem.
Valeat vestra paternitas reverenda per tempora prospera
et feliciter successiva.
Datis Beverlaci xv Kalendas Maii.
1323.
18 April.
Procuratorium questoris Archidiaconatus Notingham.
ccxxxv. 2. — [Appointment of Richard, son of Laurence
Monechant, and John of Clawurth, collectors for fabric in
Archdeaconry of Nottingham.]
Pro jurisdictione vindicanda.
1323. ccxxxv. b. 1. — Yiro provide et discreto Venerabilium vir-
ter^Asses- orum Dominorum Roberti Decani et Capituli Beati Petri
Chapter °f Eboracensis causarum Auditori, Capitulum, etc. [asking him
not to proceed against their subject Roger of Weltoft at
insatnce of Stephen of Cotum, " hominis Sancti Petri/3]
York
1323.
12 June.
Letters Patent
of Chapter in
witness of
miracle.
Maud of Set-
trington, unable
to stand for 3
months, only able
to move herself
on her hands,
brought to the
church, spent
about 3 weeks by
S. John of
Beverley's tomb ;
on 4 June,
after long prayers
at Vespers was
restored to health
by the merits and
prayers, as is
believed, of the
Saint.
De miraculo.
ccxxxvj. 1. — Universis S. matris ecclesiae filiis ad quos
pervenerit haec scriptura, Capitulum [etc.] .
Quum mira virtutum opera, quae per iatercessiones et
suffragia dicti Sancti Deus omnipotens per suam invisibilem
potentiam operatur, ad laudem et gloriam ipsius et honorem
dicti Confessoris sui gloriosi, necnon ad consolationem fide-
Hum expedit esse nota, ut nomen Altissimi ubilibet exaltetur ;
et sua majestas in eadem ecclesia majore venerationis et
devotionis frequentia a Christi fidelibus collaudetur ;
Devotioni vestrae sincerae harum serie notum fiat, quod
cum Matilda de Seterington praesentium exhibitrix fuisset
occulto Dei judicio per diutinam infirmitatem usu et solatio
gressuum suorum totaliter destituta, Ita quod super pedes
suos per tres menses et amplius stare non potuit nee incedere,
quovis modo, scilicet, de loco ad locum suis manibus misera-
biliter se promovit : Tandem de consilio quorundam bonorum
virorum ad ecclesiam nostram praedictam sub spe sanitatis
adipiscendae advecta, ad tumbam dicti Sancti et etiam in
eadem ecclesia eadem infirmitate detenta, circiter tres ebdo-
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33
mades moram traxit. Die vero Sabbati proximo ante diem
Willelmi Confessoris atque Pontificis, hora vesperarum ad
tumbam dicti Sancti posita orationibus diutius insistebat,
et cum oratioiies aliquantulum protraxisset, miseratio divina
ipsam restituit pristinaa sanitati per merita et suffragia ut
creditur dicti Sancti. Praemissa omnia probata fuerunt turn
per notorietatem, turn per testes, sufficienter et legitime pro
nobis.
Quocirca devotionem vestram in Domino exoramus ut
Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum in suo glorioso Con-
fessore laudetis, qui est sanctorum omnium gloria et corona.
In cujus rei testimonium has litteras patentes sibi fieri
fecimus, nostri sigilli munimine roboratas.
Datas Beverlaci ij Idus Junii A.D. supradicto.
[PurgatioJ]
cj. b. 3. — Thomas de Grimesby, vicarius ecclesiae [etc.]
. . . Bicardi de Hothuin, comparuit et negavit, et se de prae-
misso crimine [purgavit] .
[Idem] Thomas vocatus super fornicatione cum Matilda de
Bautre comparuit et negavifr, [can] onice se purgavit.
[Willelmus] de Melton vocatus super recidivia cum
Petronilla filia Johannis Coci .... cum eadem, et super
fornicatione cum Margareta de Fitteling, personaliter com-
paruit et . . . cum duodecima manu sacerdotum canonice se
purgavit.
1323.
Th. of Grimsby,
vicar, summoned
for misbehaviour
with divers
women,
successfully
undergoes purga-
tion.
W. of Melton the
same.
[Littera super Convocations. ,]
Capitulum [etc.] Discreto viro Roberto de Northburgh
[summons to Convocation in usual form] .
A.D. m°ccc° vicesimo tertio.
Convocatio.
1323.
17 June.
Chapter to Mr.
Et. of North-
burgh.
1323.
26 June.
Convocation.
xv. — Acta in convocatione celebrata vj Kalendas Julii A.D.
millesimo cccmoxxiij°.
Prassentibus in ipsa convocatione Magistris Eoberto de 3 canons present,
Pikering, Henrico de Carlton, Dionisio Avenel, Guilfredo aabr
de Gropo Sancti Petri, et Domino Willelmo de Sothill;
Domino Nicholao de Hugat per dictum Magistrum Dionisium,
et Magistrum Alanum de Cotum, Cancellarium dictae ecclesias,
VOL. ij. D
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
A tenant tilling
land in several
parishes with
one plough to pay
thraves rateably
in each parish, but
not more than
4 sheaves in all,
so long as he does
not do it fraudu-
lently.
procuratores suos ; Magistris Benedicto de Paston et Roberto
de Northburgh extra regnum agentibus.
De trams terrain colentium in diver sis parocliiis cum una caruca.
In primis, declaratum fuit quod si quis colat terrain in
diver sis parocliiis cum una caruca quatuor travae tanturn ab
eo exigantur ; viz., quod in qualibet parochia pro rata
portionis terrae, quam colit, solvat travas ; ita quod, ultra
quatuor travas pro una caruca nullatenus exigatur, dum
tamen in fraudem ecclesise nostrae non faciat qui sic colit.
mas and Martin-
Oats assigned by
the thrave-col-
lector to the
Bedern, canons
and ministers, in
Holderness to be
collected by the
15 May ; and no
execution issued
afterwards.
Such assignments
to be made before
Christmas.
De termino colligendi travas in garbis.
Item ordinatum est seu declaratum, quod travae in garbis
inter festum Sancti Michaelis et festum Sancti Martini inte-
graliter colligantur, et quod post praedictum festum Sancti
Martini nulla executio fiat pro hujusmodi travis levandis, nisi
propter contumaciam non solventium, de qua quis executionem
petit, fidem faciat juramento; vel etiam alia causa ration-
abili.
De termino petendi et recipiendi avenam assignatam.
Item, ordinatum est et statutum, seu etiam declaratum,
quod avena per travatarium Bedernae Canonicis et ministris
ecclesiae in Holdre assignata exigatur et recipiatur ante quin-
tum decimum die[m] mensis Maii, annis singulis futuris, et
quod post dictum quintum decimum diem nulla fiat executio
per Capitulum pro dicta avena levanda, nisi propter contu-
maciam seu offensam non solventium avenam taliter assig-
natam.
De termino assignationis arence per travetarium (sic^faciendce.
Item, ordinatum est, seu declaratum, quod assignationes
avenae canonicis et ministris ecclesias deinceps per travetarium
faciendae, fient ante festum Natalis Domini.
License granted
to Master Philip
De capella* de Mollescroft.
Item, ad numilem petitionem Magistri Philippi Ingelbord
* The ruins of this chapel may still be traced in a field, nortn-east of the
junction of the road from Beverley to Cherry Burton with that from Beverley
to Leconfield. A small mission-chapel has just been erected on the spot by the
present Vicar of the Minster, the Rev. Dr. NoHoth.
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35
concessum fuit sibi unanimiter, quod possit aedificare sive
construere capellam in honorem Beatae Marias semper virginis
perpetuis temporibus per Dei gratiam duraturam, salvo jure
cujuslibet et salvis etiam Capitulo obventionibus in dicta
capella obvenientibus, seu etiam obventuris.
Ingelbord to
build a chapel at
Molescroft to
the B. V. M.
Saving the rights
of everybody, and
to the Chapter
the oblations in
the same chapel.
De custode operis.
Pecunia operis debet custodiri a Camerario ecclesiae.
Item, Dominus Johannes de Hornesse factus fuit custos
operis ecclesiae, ita tamen quod pecunia operis erit in
custodia Camerarii, et liberetur sibi per indenturam.
De littera mittenda Cardinally cujus copia infra continetur.
Item, Ordinatum fuit, quod Praepositus et Capitulum
scribant Domino Cardinali, rectori ecclesiae de Hornesse,
(Nota bene, infra continetur) ; et conventum fuit cum Magistro
Johanne de Brigwith, rectore ecclesiae Sancti Nicholai
Beverlacensis, quod iret cum dicta littera ad Curiam, et
haberet pro labore suo et expensis centum solidos, et quod
quilibet capiens avenam in Bederna ad dictam pecuniam con-
tribuat suam partem.
John of Hornsea
appointed Master
of the Works.
The money of the
works to be kept
by the Chamber-
lain and paid out
by him under
indenture.
A letter to be
written to the
Cardinal, Rector
of Hornsea ; and
John of Brig-
with, rector of
S. Nicholas,
Beverley, to take
it to Rome, and
be paid 100s.,
every one
sharing in the
oats of the Be-
dern to contri-
bute.
De cartis et- instruments cantarice altaris Beati Petri.
Item in eadem convocatione lectae fuerunt cartae Cantariae
altaris Beati Petri et per Canonicos approbates et
collaudatse.
The deeds of
chantry of the
altar of Blessed
Peter read and
approved.
De pecunia in pane et vino pro celebrantibus divina in
ecclesia ultra dimidiam marcam ad praemissa de magno altari
rccipiendam, expendenda, quod exigatur et recipiatur, de
summa quando distributiones fieri contigerit de eadam;
videlicet in festis Ascensionis, Nativitatis Beati Johannis
Baptistae, et Exaltationis Sanctas Crucis.
The money for
bread and wine
for celebrations,
beyond £ a mark
to be taken from
the High Altar,
to be taken out
of the distribu-
tions on Ascen-
sion Day, S.
John's Day, and
Eoly Cross Day.
De usurpatione jurisdictionis Capituli facta per Magistrum
Kobertum de Ake, Decanum Beverlacensem, Ordinatum est
quod habeatur inde colloquium cum Domino Archiepiscopo ; et
liberata fuit quasdam littera Magistro Dyonisio Avenel,
Canonico, quam Dominus Willelmus Alund, capellanus can-
tarise altaris Sancti Michaelis, subditus ipsius Capituli
D2
An interview to
be had with the
Abp. as to usurp-
ation of Chapter
jurisdiction by
Robert of Aike,
Dean of
Beverley.
The letter which
W. Alund, chap-
lain of the
36
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
chauntry of S.
Michael's altar,
an immediate
snbject of the
Chapter, ob-
tained from the
Archbishop,
handed to Canon
Dennis Avenel.
1323.
30 June.
Provost and
Chapter to Pilo-
fortis, Cardinal
Priest of S.
Anastasia.
We do not wish
to take any
thraves of oats
from your
church of Horn-
sea by violence,
and unjustly,
and God have
mercy on him
who has written
so falsely,
but we intend to
collect the
thraves imme-
morially and
notoriously due
for the drink of
the Provost and
other members
of the Minster,
from it as from
the other
churches in
Holderness.
We therefore
humbly ask your
most pious
fatherhood not
to incline the
ears of your
piety to sugges-
tions contrary
to the truth ;
and for the
honour of God
and reverence
of S. John in-
struct your proc-
tor to pay up
without scruple
for the future.
immediate, a dicto Domino Archiepiscopo in praejudiciui
Capituli impetravit, cujus litterae copia inferius continetur.
Domino Cardinali.
ccxxxvj. 2. — Yenerabili in Christo patri Domino Piloforti
Sanctse Romanes ecclesias, etc., S. Anastasiae presbitero
Cardinali, sui devoti et humiles Capellani, Praepositus et
Capitulum [etc.].
Litteras paternitatis vestrse clausas reverenter recepimus
in haec verb a :
Honorabilibus [etc. ut supra in proximo folio] .
Vestra3 igitur paternitati veraciter innotescimus reverendae,
quod non fuit, nee est, nee erit, Deo propitio, nostrae in-
tentionis, aliquas travas avenae annuas de ecclesia vestra de
Hornese per potentiam propter vestram absentiam aliqualiter
injuste vel indebite usurpare [nee] dictae ecclesiae indebitam
imponere servitutem, et parcat sibi Deus qui f also contrarium
scripsit, sed travas avenae annuas ad ecclesiam nostram
Beverlacensem a tempore cujus contrarii memorianon existit,
adeo jure notorio quod nulla tergiversatione celari poterit
pertinentes, et pro potu Praepositi, canonicorum, servitorum,
vicariorum et clericorum dictae ecclesiae nostrae debitas et
consuetas, de dicta eeclesia vestra de Hornese quemad-
modum de aliis ecclesiis Holdernessiae vicinis petere et exigere
volunius et intendimus, ut tenemur, nee has travas avenae
annuas valemus ullo modo non petitas vel non exactas
deserere, seu ab ipsarum exactione quoquomodo cessare,
absque perjurio manifestissimo, et distructione ecclesiaa
nostrae Beverlacensis in servitoribus et ministris.
Quam ob rem vestrae piissimae paternitati supplicamus,
humiliter et devote, quatinus hujusmodi vobis suggestis
veritati contrariis aures pietatis vestrae nullatenus inclinare
curetis, quin potius dignemini pro Dei honore, zelo veri-
tatis et pro reverentia gloriosi confessoris Beati Johannis
ecclesiae nostrae patroni, procuratori vestro dare in mandatis,
quod benigne et absque scrupulo travas hujusmodi debitas
et ad ecclesiam nostram pertinentes persolvat, ut exinde
possitis, intercedente dicto glorioso Confessore, mereri abun-
dantius apud Deum, qui in dierum longitudine et prosperitate
votiva vestram paternitatem reverendam conservet, suae
sanctae ecclesiae adjutricem.
Datis Beverlaci ultimo die mensis Junii.
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Regina
c. 2. — Quinto Nonas Julii A.D. supradicto venit Domina 1323.
Regina Aiigliao illustris Beverlacum, et jacuit in domo Ma- The Q
gistri Benedict! de Paston, praebendae S. Andreas praeben-
Mr. Benedict of
Paston.fS.
Et die sequente audivit missam in choro, et post missam £end?w s pre"
obtulit feretro circiter vii. s., et nichil aliud.
J". de Swina.
and gave about
7s. to shrine and
nothing else.
c. 3. —Die translationis S. Benedict! anno supradicto, post 1323.
completorium dictum in choro, Dominus Johannes de Swyna,
vicarius, in praasentia sociorum suorum resignavit vicariam
suam in manus Capituli, J. de Risindon, Auditore tune
Capituli gerente vices ejusdem etipsam resign ationem nomine
Capituli admittente ;
Quae littera resignations in praesentia dicti Auditoris et
vicariorum dictae ecclesiae lecta fuit per ipsum Johannem de
Swyna pariter et singnata (sic).
Et est dicta littera in cophino de praesentationibus vica-
riorum.
Littera privata Roberto Pylcering.
ccxxxvj. b. 2. — Suo domino reverendo in Christo karis- 1323.
simo Magistro Roberto de Pikering, Decano ecclesiao Beati
Petri Eboracensis et canonico ecclesiae Beati Johannis Bever- S£sterrtoRt of
lacensis, suus si placet Johannes de Risindon ecclesiaB Beati ofiCYorkng' Dean
Johannis ministerialis se ipsum humilem et devotum cum
omnimodis reverentia et honore.
Litteras vestras et Capituli vestri Eboracensis Capitulo
nostro directas recepi ista die Dominica continentes quod
citaret Dominum Willelmum de Melton, vicarium chori nostii,
quod compareret coram vobis in Capitulo vestro hac instante
die Jovis Isabellae de Wiredal, tenenti beati Petri super sibi
canonice proponendis ab eadem responsurus, etc. s- Peter-
Yerum cum Capitulum nostrum primarias cognitiones de But the cogni-
omnibus suis subditis notorie habeat, sicut scitis, et hinc a concemingS0lr
teinpore cujus memoria non existit ipsas litteras execution!
demandare in derogationem status nostraa ecclesias non stance ;randsoi
have not dared
38
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
to execute their
mandate, espe-
cially without
consulting my
masters your
brethren.
Truly for 20
years and more
I have served in
the Minster and
never saw or
could hear of
any of our sub-
jects being sum-
moned before
your Chapter.
audebam et praecipue dominis meis, vobis et vestris confra-
tribus, inconsultis.
Quocirca vestrae domination! supplico reverendae quatinus
velitis me habere in hac parte vestra benignitate solita
excusatum, et me si inde querela fiat erga Auditorem Capi-
tuli vestri pariter excusare et injungere eidem quod subditis
Capituli nostri coram ipso vocari [non] faciat ad instantiam
alicujus in derogationem jurisdictions nostrae notoriam et
status ecclesias memoratae, et prascipue cum scriptum sit
quod ecclesiasticus ordo confunditur nisi cuique sua juris-
dictio conserve tur. Eevera per xx annos et amplius in dicta
ecclesia deservivi, et nunquam vidi nee scire potui quod
aliquis de subditis nostris coram Vobis et Capitulo vestro ad
alicujus instantiam citaretur, nisi quod Auditor Capituli
vestri, nescio quo spiritu ductus, isto anno ut vestram juris-
dictionem forsitan arnpliaret, et nostram minueret attemp-
tavit.
Item si placet significetis mini [MS. stained'] quod nuntius
noster eat ad curiam prout in ' convocatione f uit nuperime
ex quo procurator ecclesiaa de Hornse Bedernae de
avena plenarie satisf ecerit ; dictus autem nuntius pecuniam
juxta conventionem inde factam statim recepit, quam recusat
restituere, sepius requisitus, asserens se semper esse paratum
quod conventum fuit effectui mancipare.
Yaleat vestra dominatio per tempora prospera et feliciter
successiva.
Datis Beverlaci xvi Kalendas Augusti.
1323.
25 July.
Conversatio.
ccxxxvij. — [Testimonial in favour of Th. of Siglesthorn,
chaplain " qui divina cum cura animarum per multos annos
infra jurisdictionem nostram laudabiliter celebravit."]
Pro Qusestore.
19 sept. ccxxxvij. 2. — [Appointment of J. of Preston, chaplain, col-
lector for fabric in Archdeaconry of East Riding.]
ccxxxvij. b. 1. — [Appointment of Ed. son of Laurence
Monechaunte, clerk, collector for diocese and province of
York except East Riding.]
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39
Clerici missi ad ordines.
xij Kalendas Octobris A.D. supradicto missi fuerunt ad 1323.
ordines infrascripti, viz. :
Jacobus de Bainton ad
Henricus de Mersflet
Amandus de Fitteling
Thomas de Godmundham
Eicardus de Wretton
Thomas de Hal sham
ordinem accolitatus
subdiaconatus
diaconatus
20 Sept.
Orders.
1 acolyte.
3 subdeaoons.
2 deacons.
Super visitatione.
ciiij. — Willelmus, permissione divina [etc.].
Quia arduis ex causis et inopinatis sumus impediti, quo-
minus visitatiorii nostrse in Capitulo ecclesiae nostrae prsedictae
ad recreationem animarum vestrarum prgeordinatae die Lunas
xxiiij0 die mensis Octobris, prout alias vobis mandavimus,
vacare possumus ista vice ;
Vos super hoc tenore praesentium duximus praemuniendum,
et per vos confratres vestros absentes, et alios quoscunque
qui in hac parte f uerint praemuniendi, praemuniri volumus et
mandamus, ne ad dictos diem et locum sub laboribus et
expensis conveniatis seu conveniat, quousque per alias nostras
litteras, cum vacaverimus, fueritis in hac parte congrue
praemuniti. Valete.
Datis apud Thorp prope Eboracum vjto Idus Octobris, anno
gratiae m°cccmo xiij° et pontificatus nostri septimo.
1323.
10 Oct.
Abp.Wm. Metion
to Chapter.
Postponing the
Visitation fixed
for 24 Oct. on
account of urgent
business.
Testamentum E. Birkin.
c. iiij. 2. — In nomine Domini, Amen. Anno ejusdemab in- .1323
carnatione m°cccmoxxiii°. Indictione septima. mense Octobris, 16 Oct-
J J r ' ' Will of R. Birkin,
die sextadecima, Dommus Kicardus de Birkin. Capellanus chaplain of
' ' Chantry at altar
perpetuas cantariaB altaris Beatae Catermae in ecclesia col- of B. Catharine,
legiata Beati Johannis Beverlacensis suum testamentum et
suam ultimam voluntatem, compos mentis et memoriae,
humanae fragilitatis arbitrio, licet adversa valitudine prae-
peditus, in mei notarii puplici infrascripti et testium praesentia
subscriptorum condidit sub hac forma :
40
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
Soul to God :
body to be buried
before said altar.
After payment
of debts and
funeral expenses
residue among
poor relations as
cousin Nicholas
of Sutton, his
executor, with
J. of Amcotts,
portioner in the
Minster, thinks
fit.
Done in the
hostel in which
he lived in South-
moregate.
In primis legavit animam suam Deo, et corpus snum ad
sepelliendum in ecclesia Beati Johannis praedicti coram altare
Beatae Caterinae praedictae, si humaniter de eo contingeret, et
gratia illius sepulturam inpetrare valeat.
Item debitis suis ante omnia plenarie persolutis, et corpore
suo ecclesiasticae tradito sepulturae, legavit omnia bona sua
residua ad distribuendum inter pauperes parentes suos,
secundum ordinationem Nicholai de Sutton consanguinei sui,
quern suum hujus testamenti et suae ultimae voluntatis execu-
torem constituit principalem, una cum Domino Johanne de
Amcotes, clerico, portionario ecclesise Beati Johannis prae-
dicti.
Acta fuerunt hie apud Be-verlacum in hospitio in quo
dictus Dominus Bicardus habitavit in Suthmorgate, anno
Indictione mense et die quibus supra; prsesentibus Domino
Alano de Humbelton, vicario ecclesiae praedictae Beati Johan-
nis, et Alano de Humbelton f'amulo ejusdem vicarii, testibus
ad praemissa vocatis specialiter et rogatis.
Et ego Johannes Chaumpenays de Eboraco, clericus
Eboracensis diocesis, auctoritate apostolica notarius puplicus,
praemissis omnibus et singulis, prout supra scribuntur, pras-
sens interfui, una cum testibus praenotatis suprascriptarum
[sic], manu mea scripsi et puplicavi, in hanc etiam puplicam
formam redegi, a praadictoque Domino Bicardo rogatus
signum meum apposui consuetum.
1323.
2 Nov.
Probate of Will
of R. Birkin.
Administration
granted to J. of
Amcotts, the
other executor
renouncing.
Probate.
ciiij. b. 1.— "*In Dei nomine, Amen. Auditor causarum
Yenerabilis Capituli [etc.] praesens testamentum rite con-
ditum pronuntiantes, Nicholao de Sutton, executore in
eodem nominate ab honere administrandi se legitime ex-
cusante, Domino Johanni de Amcotes, executori in eodem
nominato liberam commisimus administrationem secundum
formam statuti super hoc editi in bonis ipsum contingentibus
testamentum.
Datum Beverlaci secundo die Novembris A.D. millesimo
cccmoxxiij0.
* Three leaves torn away before this : probably because they contained incon-
venient revelations of the kind contained on f. c. b. as to the conduct of the
members of the Minster at the Archbishop's visitation.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 41
Admissio Domini Johannis de Beningholm.
ciiij. b. 3. — A.D. supradicto Dominus [etc. as above] prae- 1323.
sentavit nobis litteras infrascriptas. Willelmus : [etc.]
J. of Benning-
holra as Abp.'s
vicar in Minster.
R. NortJiburg pro terra in Molliscroft.
c. iiij. b. 4. — Yenerabilibus et discretis viris dominis 1323.
Canonicis et Capitulo [etc.], suus conf rater et concanorjicus Rt. of Nortii-
Robertus de Northburgh, fraternam in Domino caritatem. burgh toChaPter-
Cum parvis desideriis complacendi, studiis litterarum ^VaTniversity
intendens in remotis, quominus terrarum culturis vacare cannot atten^to
potero in praesenti, vestram sinceram deprecor in Domino of^iaTd^ibes^ch
devotionem, quatenus terrarum et tenementorum dimissionem to confir^ a°rd
de consilio amicorum eorundem notitiam habentium factam wMcuTsen^you,
per scriptum indentatum, cujus alteram partem hujusmodi prebend.0* which
contractum ratificans consignavi; prout in similibus dimis-
sionibus fieri consuevit, per vestras litteras Capitulares
dignemini confirmare, cum in meae praebendae succedentium, those succeeding
quia in eadem fidedignorum relatione testante cedet hie con-
tractus commodum et profectum.
Valeat vestra fraternitas in prosperitate continua et votiva. Dated at Orleans.
Scriptis Aureliani iiijto die mensis Octobris.
Quae littera est in quodam cofino in quo continentur cartse
Cancellariae ecclesiae beati Johannis Beverlacensis.
\Commissio, ,]
ccxxxvij. 4. — Idibus Decembris A.D. supradicto facta fuit 1323.
commissio Ricardo Roce et Simoni Roce ad liberandum
gaolam nostram secundum legem et consuetudinem regni.
Prsesentatio ad officium berefellarii Magistro Johanni de
Hug at.
cv. 1. — iij Nonas Januarii A.D. supradicto Magister Johannes 132|.
de Hugat, clericus. comparuit coram nobis Auditore, et por- Mr.Johnaof
.. i .-,.,, . r • , Huggate, clerk,
rexit nobis litteras infrascriptas.
Venerandaa discretionis viris Yenerabili Capitulo [etc.] astodisDea,
Nicholaus de Hugat, Praepositus ecclesiae praelibatas, Salutem Huggate, i?o-
-,-. . , vost, vacant by
et sinceram in JJomino caritatem. death of Eobert
of Crakehall.
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
Dated at Berk-
hampstead.
Quia corrodium, quod habuit Kobertus de Crakhall, clericus
de Berf ell, in dicta Beverlacensi ecclesia per mortem ipsius
vacans, et ad collationem meam spectans Dilecto clerico meo
Magistro Johanni de Hugat cum suis juribus et pertinentiis
universis contuli, intuitu caritatis ;
Vos require quatinus circa ipsum quod vestrum est in hac
parte velitis ulterius exequi cum favore. Feliciter et diu in
Domino valeatis.
Datis apud Berkhampstede xj Kalendas Januari anno
gratiae millesimo cccmoxxiij°.
Admitted to the
office of Bere-
fellar.
Admissio ad officium Berefellarii ; bene concepta.
Harum igitur virtute litterarum dictum Magistrum
Johannem, observatis omnibus de jure et consuetudine dictaa
ecclesiae observandis, ad dictum corrodium, vice et auctori-
tate dicti Capituli, admisimus cum suis juribus et perti-
nentiis universis, et instituimus in eodem ; jure cujuslibet in
omnibus semper salvo ; ipsum in spiritualibus per librum et
in temporalibus per panem investientes, cum prasstito ab
eodem in habitu regulari juramento consueto, stallum in
choro cum omnibus aliis debitis et consuetis f ecimus assignari,
et sibi fecimus litteras super admissione sua in corporalem
possessionem et inductione fecimus [sic] infrascriptas.
Same day
Letters Patent
of Chapter.
Certificate of
admission of
Mr. J. of Hug-
gate.
Magistro Johanni de Hugat.
cv. 3. — Universis pateat per praesentes quod Nos Capitulum
[etc.] litteras venerabilis viri Domini Nicholai de Hugat,
Prsepositi ecclesiae antedictae, recepimus tenorem continentes
infr ascription.
Venerandae, etc.
Harum igitur virtute litterarum dictum Magistrum Johan-
nem ad dictum corrodium admisimus,, et ipsum, assignato sibi
stallo in choro, ac ceteris omnibus debitis et consuetis in hac
parte plenius observatis, in corporalem possessionem dicti
corrodii jurium et pertinentium ejusdem, salvo jure cujuslibet,
induximus, ut decebat.
In cujus rei testirnonium sigillum nostrum praesentibus est
appensum.
Datis Beverlaci iij° Nonas Januarii A.D. supradicto.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK.
Venerabili Capitulo ecclesiss Beati Petri Eboracensis per
Capitulum ecclesiss Beati Johannis Beverlacensis.
ccxxxvrj.b.4. — Yiris reverendis et discretis Domino Koberto, 132f .
0 16 Jan.
Decano, et Capitulo Beati Petri Eboraceusis Capitulum. etc., chapter to
. Chapter of York.
balutem, et mutuae vmculum caritatis cum devotis reverentia
et honor e.
Quum Dominum Johannem de Preston, capellanum exhi-
bitorem prsesentium ad petendum [etc., asking that they
will issue letters to enable him to collect in the jurisdiction
of the Chapter of York.]
Procuratorium pro procurators eligendo.
ccxxxviij. — [Canon Dennis Avenel appointed Proctor for
Convocation at York Tuesday after Purification of the Virgin
(2 Feb.), to elect Proctors for Parliament at Westminster
three weeks after 2 Feb.]
132|.
22 Jan.
Compotus Domini Johannis de Amcotes.
ccxxxviij. 2. — xij Kalendas Martii A.D. supradicto Dominus
132
19 Pe
Johannes de Amcotes, executor testamenti Domini Ricardi Release to j! of
de Birking, capellani, comparuit coram nobis Auditore, et accounts as
,...-.. -. -i • • j !_• • -i • executor of Rd.
reddidit compotum suum de admimstratione sua in boms of Birkin,
ipsius defuncti; quo reddito et audito, allocatisque allocan-
dis, quia invenimus ipsum in bonis ipsius fideliter adminis-
trasse, et ultra vires inventarii iij s. expendisse, ipsum ab
omni honere compoti, quatenus ad nos attinet, absolvimus et
quietum dimisimus, et eidem litteras acquietanciae sub sigillo
officii nostri concessimus.
R. Northburgh. Amen dico.
cv. 4. — xiiij0 Kalendas Martii A.D. supradicto, Magister
Robertus de Northburgh, canonicus et praebendarius prae-
bendae S. Martini in ecclesia Beati Johannis Beverlaeensis
coram Capitulo, Magistro G-wilfrido prassenti, personaliter
comparuit ; expositoque qualiter ipsam praebendam auctori-
tate apostolica fuerat assecutus, et in corporalem possessionem
per procuratorem suum, assignatis sibi stallo in choro et loco
133}.
17 Feb.
Mr. Rt. of
Northburgh,
canon and pre-
bendary of S.
Martin's ; having
shown his papal
provision thereto,
and his admission
by proxy,
44
BEVERLEY MINSTER
was assigned stall
in choir and
place in phapter,
and putting on
the regular habit,
re-entered the
Chapter, and was
admitted Canon
with the usual
kiss and oath.
in Capitulo, per Magistrum Willelmum de Seton, clericum,
ad prgemissa specialiter deputatum, exiit et habitum regu-
larem induit, et rediens in Capitulum admissus fuit in canoni-
cum et infratrem cum osculo, et jur amentum praestitit solitum,
et assignata fuerunt sibi stallum in choro et locus in Capitulo,
quatenus de jure fieri potuit et debuit.
132}.
24 Feb.
Chapter to Rd.
of Boynton, one
of the 7 clerks.
Leave of absence
and dispensation
for non-residence
for 3 years at
any school of
literature.
Provided a fit
proxy is left.
Bointon : * super Ucentia abessendi.
ccxxxviij. 3 and cvj. 4. — Capitulum [etc.] Dilecto nobis in
Christo Kicardo de Bointon, uni de septem clericis ecclesiae
nostrae, Salutem in Domino.
Precibus tuis favorabiliter inclinati, ut per triennium, com-
putatum a die confectionis praesentium, insistere valeas quo
volueris congruo studio f litterarum, tibi licentiam concedimus
gratiose ; et tecum super non residentia per praedictum tern-
pus, quantum ad nos attinet dispensamus.
Proviso quod ecclesia nostra in hiis, quae ad te ratione
portionis tuae spectant, debitis obsequiis interim non frau-
detur, et quod in eadem habeas procuratorem idoneum, qui
in singulis et per omnia contingentia in tua absentia debite
perimpleat loco tuo. Yale.
Data Beverlaci vija Kalendas Martii A.D. supradicto.
Concessa fuit et emanavit de praecepto Magistrorum Henrici
de Carlton et Gruilfredi de G-ropo.
132}.
1 March.
Chapter to
Official of Arch-
deacon of
Lincoln.
Citatio vel monitio qusestoris.
[Commending Kichard, son of Laurence Monechant, to him
as the Chapter's collector, and asking him to make Thomas
Gamel and Thomas of Bradele, late collectors, give up their
muniments and appear to pass their accounts as collectors.]
132}.
19 March.
Nich. of Siggles-
thorn accounts
for profits of
Tempus inter Barnabos et Guilfridum.
cv. b. — Die lunae proxima ante diem S. Cutberti anno
supradicto, Dominus Nicholaus de Silestorn, firmarius quon-
* Boyngton in copy on f. cvj.
f This must mean a University, A Grammar School he would have found at
Beverley.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 45
dam prasbendae S. Michaelis, reddidit Capitulo compotum de
proventibus dictae praebendae provenientibus, a die consecra-
tionis Domini Barnabonis Malse spinae, dictae praebendas [si of]
dudum praebendarii, et Magistrum Guilfridum de Groppo d^Gropp^ °f
S. Petri, mine praebendarium ejusdem ; s. Peter;
Quo audito et reddito, factaque deductione xl marcarum
Magistro Thomas de Luco, procuratori dicti Barnabonis,
solutarum, et pecuniae solutae pro oneribus ecclesiae et
pecuniae solutas die to Magistro Guilfrido, solvit Magistris Residentiary3
Roberto de Pikering, Dionisio Avenel et Henrico de Carleton, Canons-
canonicis tune residentialibus, ix li. xxiij d. ; et quietus
recessit.
J. de Swyna.
c. 3. — Die Translationis S. Benedicti anno supradicto, post 132j.
completorium dictum in choro Dominus Johannes de Swyna, After1<^j[lulj£ie
vicarius, in prassentia sociorum suorum resingnavit vicariam ^Joir J: of
suam in manus Capituli, Johanne de Risindon, Auditore cha^te^6 to
tune Capituli, gerente vices ejusdem, et ipsam resingnationem "sessor.
nomine Capituli admit tent e.
Quae littera resingnationis in praesentia dicti Auditoris et it is in the box
vicarii dictae ecclesiae lecta fuit per ipsum Johannem de of?iSr?.tatI
Swyna pariter et singnata, et est dicta littera in cophino de
praesentationibus vicariorum.
ccxxxviij. b. — Universis sanctae [etc. Appointment of Rd. 1324.
son of Laurence Monechaunte, collector for fabric in city 4 April.
and diocese of Lincoln] .
Datis Beverlaci die S. Ambrosii Episcopi A.D. supradicto.
Episcopo Lincoln pro qusestore.
Reverendo [etc.] Henrico Episcopo Lincolniensi, Devotum same day.
Capitulum [etc.].
[To ask for licence to Collector to collect in Lincoln diocese.]
ccxxxix. — Decano et Capitulo Lincoln pro quaestore.
[To same purport.]
De altare S. Jacobi.
cvj, 3. — Nonis Aprilis A.D. supradicto Magistri Robertus 1324.
de Pikering, Henricus de Carlton et G-uilfridus de Gropo Thec5htptei'
46
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
assigned the altar
of S. Martin's
prebend to the
vicar of the
prebend of
S. James ;
who immediately
transf erred the
image of S. James
and other orna-
ments from the
old S. James'
altar to the new
one.
1324.
18 April.
Mr. J.of Huggate,
one of the 7
clerks, summoned
for misbehaviour
with Emma of
Grans wick,
confessed and
due penance is
enjoined, and
familiarity with
her interdicted
under penalty of
5s.
1324.
18 April.
Letters Patent
of Assessor.
that Mr. J. of
Huggate, one of
the 7 clerks,
diffamed for
misbehaviour
with Emma of
Cranswick has
been canonically
corrected by
him.
S. Petri, canonic! tune Capitulum facientes seu repraesentantes
assignaverunt altare quondam B. Martini Domino Alano de
Humbelton, vicario praebendae S. Jacobi Apostoli, et ejus
successoribus vicariis dictae praebendae quantum ad ipsum
attinet, salvo jure cujuslibet ;
Et statim dictus Alanus de altare dictae praebendae
antiquitus assignato imaginem S. Jacobi et alia ornamenta ad
altare praedictum fecit inferri.
Hugate.
cv. b. 3. — xiiij0 Kalendas Maii A.D. supradicto, Magister
Johannes de Hugat, unus de septem clericis, vocatus super
crimine fornicationis cum Emma de Crauncewike comparuit,
et f atetur ;
Injunctaque sibi poenitentia competent!, interdiximus sibi
omnem familiaritatem cum eadem in locis suspectis, sub
poena Ix denariorum.
Hug at.
ccxxxix. 3.— Universis pateat per praesentes, quod cum
Magister Johannes de Hugat, unus de septem clericis ecclesiae
[etc.] super crimine fornicationis cum Emma de Crauncewik
f uisset aliquantulum diffamatus ;
Nos venerabile Capitulum [etc.] causarum Auditor correc-
tionem canonice fecimus de eodem.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum officii nostri praesentibus
est appensum.
Datis xiiij0 Kalendas Maii anno supradicto.
1324.
20 April.
Procuratorium in Concilia Provinciali.
ccxxxix. b. 1. — [Appointment of Canon Dennis Avenel as
proctor for Provinical Council at York on 4 May.]
1324.
Letters Patent
of Assessor.
That W. of
Swine, vicar
[choral], has
Super purgatione.
Universis pateat per praesentes quod cum Dominus
Willelmus de Swyna, vicarius ecclesiae [etc.] coram nobis
Auditore Yenerabilis Capituli ecclesiae memoratae, fama, ut
dicebatur, super hoc laborante, super crimine fornicationis
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 47
cum J. filia W. B. ad certum diem fuisset legitime evocatus, undergone pur-
idem Dominus Willelmus sufficienter et legitime comparuit of misbehaviour
. . with a lady
secundum formam vocatioms sibi factae. de niriusmodi crimme specified by
J initials.
asserens se immunem, purgationemque suam ofterens cum
effectu; quam sibi indictam cum octava manu sacerdotum
[persona]liter admisit et canonice earn fecit.
Propter quod bonas famae, quantum ad nos attinet, [resti-
tuimus] testimonio praesentium quas sigilli nostri
munimine fecimus roborari.
Datis Beverlaci [MS. stained] A.D. m°cccmo vicesimo quarto.
Similem litteram habuit Dominus Thomas de G-rimesby pro
Avicia uxore Ricardi de Hothum et Maria de Bautre, et
Dominus Willelmus de Melton pro Petronilla filia Johannis
coci, et Margareta de Fitteling.
De Visitatione.
Capitulum [etc.] Reverendo et discreto viro Magistro 1324.
Benedicto de Paston, concanico et confratri nostro, Salutem
[etc. Summons for Archbishop's visitation for 16 May.
Dated Beverley, S. George's Day] .
Acquietantia expensarum.
ccxxxix. b. 4. — Sciant universi per praesentes quod ego J. 1324.
de Eisindon camerarius ecclesiae [etc.] collector [et receptor] chamberlain to
f . r . ' . -, , . Rt. of North-
expensarum factarum circa [commuma negotia] ecclesias burgh,
memoratae a festo Ascensionis dominicas [MS. stained] . . Eeceipt for share
A.D. revoluto, recepi de reverendo viro Domino Eoberto de expensS°from
Northburgh canonico et praebendario prasbendae S. Martini i323.nsl<
in ecclesia memorata per manus Domini pro-
curatoris sui sterlingorum pro portione sua
dictarum expensarum ipsum de praedicto tempore contin-
gent e.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum prassentibus est
appensum.
Datis Beverlaci .... Kalendas Junii A.D. m°cccmoxxnij°.
Purgatio.
ccxl. 1. — Universis pateat per praesentes quod cum Domino 1324.
Johanni de Eimeswell, Capellano cantariae altaris Beataa LettersJpanteent
of Assessor.
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
J. of Rimswell,
chaplain of
S. Katharine's
Chantry, charged
with assault on
Wm. of Ottring-
liam, when in
deacon's orders,
and so excom-
municate and
having fallen into
irregularity by
celebrating divine
service.
For his good fame
and the con-
sciences of the
other vicars
demanded to be
put to purgation
by 12 priests ;
This was done
and he was
restored to good
fame.
Caterinse Virginis in ecclesia [etc.] ab aliquibus, ut asseruit,
coram nobis Auditore venerabilis Capituli [etc.] fuisset
crimen impositum infrascriptum, quod idem Johannes in
Dominum Willelmum de Otringham, tune in or dine diaconatus
constitutum debuit manus sacrilegas injecisse, et sic in senteii-
tiam excommunicationis majoris latam a sacro canone in
hujusmodi facinoris praesumptorem dampnabiliter incidisse,
et sic divina officia celebrando irregularitatem . miserabiliter
incurrisse ; Idem Johannes coram nobis personaliter com-
paruit, de hujusmodi crimine asserens se immunein, et ad
purgandum suam innocentiam in hac parte se admitti cum
instantia postulavit.
Nos vero Auditor praedictus sua magna instantia excitatus,
et ad prgeservationem famae suae conscientiarumque vicariorum
et aliorum ministrorum ecclesiae memoratae, purgationem suam
cum xij manu sacerdotum duximus admittendam.
Qua canonice facta, ipsum suae bonae famae quatenus ad
officium nostrum attinet, salvo jure cujuslibet, restituimus per
decretum.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum officii nostri est appen-
sum.
Datis Beverlaci iij nonas Junii A.D. m°cccmoxxiiijto.
1324.
7 June.
Orders.
2 sub-deacons
2 deacons.
Clerici missi ad or dines.
ccxl. 2. — Missi fuerunt ad ordines in Ebdomada Pentecostes
videlicet clerici infrascripti.
• Galfridus de Baron et Jacobus de Bainton ad ordinem sub-
diaconatus.
Johannem de Patrington et Thomas de Arnal ad ordinem
diaconatusx • •
Sub dato diei Jovis videlicet vij° Idus Junii A.D. supradicto.
1321.
Commissio attornati*
ccxl. 3. — Universis Christi fidelibus pateat per praesentes
A ointment of quod Nos, Capitulum [etc.] assignavimus et loco nostro con-
J> 5f JS81?"11 stituimus Dilectos nobis in Christo Johannem de Harpham et
and Ih. of ....
Thomam de Salsomarisco, praesentium exhibitores, conjunctim
* Apparently inserted here as a precedent for the next document.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 49
et divisim, et queinlibet eorum in solidum attornatos nostros assert an chapter
' T! _ privileges before
ad Curias et libertates nostras petendas et calumpniandas King's Justices
* \ € m Ban oo or at
coram quibuscunque Justitiariis Domini Regis Anglias illustris, the assizes.
tarn in Banco quam in Assisas capiendas assignatis, et ad
omnia et singula faciendum et exercendum, quae officium
attornati quoquo modo pertinere dinoscuntur;
Ratum habentes habiturique et gratum, quicquid praedicti
Johannes et Thomas, et eorum alter, nomine nostro, fecerint
seu fecerit in prasmissis.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum praesentibus est
appensum.
Datis Beverlaci iij die mensis Octobris A.D. m°cccmo xxj°.
Commissio attornati.
ccxl. 4. — Universis pateat [etc., as in last to constituimus] 1324.
Dilectum et fidelem nostrum Robertum de Swyna, prassentium Appointment of
exhibitorem, attornatum nostrum ad Curias [etc., as in last] . Attorney^6' a
Datis Beverlaci viij die Augusti A.D. millesimo cccmo vicesimo AsSzes?n
quarto.
Publicatio sententide excommunicationis pro violatione
liberatuw.
ccxl. b. 1. — Capitulum [etc.], Discrete viro Domino Decano 1324.
de Dikering, Salutem in Auctore salutis. cuapter'toDean
Cum in omnes raptores et violatores sanctas matris ecclesias, of Dickering,
et prascipue ecclesias nostras S. Johannis praedicti, qui, per
fraudem vel nequitiam aut invidiam vel excogitatam malitiam,
consuetudines, rectitudines, jura, libertates et privilegia
ecclesias antedictas, quibus hactenus usi sumus, ut in terris et
tenementis, wardis, releviis, escaetis, obedientiis, h'delitatibus,
sectis curiarum, redditibus, servitiis et aliis rebus quibuscun-
que, quocumque modo, clam vel palam, tacite vel expresse,
consilio, auxilio vel consensu adnullare, perturbare, auferre,
infringere seu substituere, ausu sacrilego moliuntur; in
omnesque pacem dicti Sancti temere violantes quibuscunque
locis infra libertatem memoratam ; insuper et qui ecclesias,
beneficia, terras, redditus, pocessiones (sic) ad nos et ordina-
tionem nostram, seu alicujus concanonicorum nostrorum spec-
tantes, spreta nostra seu ipsius auctoritate, invaserint, aut
scienter, in nostrum seu alicujus concanonicorum nostrorum
praej udicium seu dampnum detinuerint, et omnes eorundem
VOL. II. E
50
BEVEKLEY MINSTER:
1324.
13 Sept.
1325.
July.
1324.
23 July— 22 Sept.
Deprivation of
Win. of Melton
Vicarage
of S. Michael's
prebend for non-
residence.
J. of Risindon
and Hugh of
Ottringham made
Chapter's Com-
missaries in the
matter.
autores (sic) et f autores consilium vel auxilium praebentes ;
necnon in travarum ecclesias memoratae illicitos detentores,
sit et fuerit, a tempore cujus contrarii memoria non existit,
sententia excommunicationis majoris quater in anno in ecclesia
nostra praedicta auctoritate sanctorum patrum provide pro-
mulgata ;
Nos volentes quod dicta sententia excommunicationis, uni-
versis Christi fidelibus, quatenus fieri potest, plenius inno-
tescat, ne Christi fideles labe excommunicationis hujusmodi
maculentur, et ne quis possit praetendere ignorantiam in hac
parte,
Yobis mandamus, quatinus dictam sententiam excommuni-
cationis sic latam, cum omnibus clausulis in praesenti mandato
contentis, in ecclesia parochiali de Garton et aliis ecclesiis
decanatus vestri per ipsarum rectores, vicarios seu presbiteros
parochiales, diebus Dominicis et f estivis intra missarum solemp-
nia, quando populi multitude aderit, in eisdem faciatis solemp-
niter publicari, ut Christi fideles dictae sententiaa excommuni-
cationis [MS. stained~\ notitiam optinentes a praemissis inso-
lentiis omnino abstineant et desistant.
Et ad probationem mandati nostri totaliter [etc.] .
Datis Beverlaci xiij° Kalendas Septembris A.D. [etc.].
Pro qusestu, Lincoln.
ccxli. — [Appointment of J. of Stork collector of new fabric
in cities and dioceses of York, Durham, and Carlisle for two
years from date.] Idibus Septembris A.D. m°cccmoxxiiijto.
Memorandum quod iij Nonas Julii A.D. m°cccmoxxmo quinto
f actum fuit eidem Bicardo* simile procuratorium per biennium
tantum duraturum.
Processus contra Willelmum de Melton.
cvj. b. 3. — Vicesimo tertio die mensis Julii A.D. supradicto
Yenerabile Capitulum [etc.] , Domino W. de Sotill canonico
Capitulum, etc., representante, commisit vices suas Dominis
Johanni de Bisindon et Hugoni de Otringham, vicariis dictaa
ecclesise, in praesentia Johannis de Eboraco, notarii auctoritate
apostolica publici, ad citandum et monendum et ad proce-
dendum in forma juris contra Dominum Willelmum de Melton,
vicarium, absentem absque causa probabili, necessaria vel
* Some mistake here, due to the original.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 51
honesta, licentia a Capitulo non petita, et ad pronuntiandum
dictam vicariam vacantem, si idem Willelmus non compareat
infra terminum sibi canonice moderandum, et ad privandum
eundeni et ad recipiendum alium idoneum ad vicariam prae-
dictam, et ad faciendum omnia et singula quae in praemissis
necessaria fuerint vel etiam oportuna.
Quo die facta fuit sibi monitio in hac forma :
In Dei nomine, Amen. Nos Johannes de Eisindon et Hugo warning to w
de Otringham vicarii [etc.] ac etiam venerabilis Capituli [etc.]
ad infrascripta conjunctim et divisim commissarii specialiter
deputati, Auctoritate vice et nomine dicti Capituli monemus 9 days>
primo in Capitulo prasnotato Dominum Willelmum Melton,
qui se gessit pro vicario praebendas S. Michaelis in ecclesia
lemorata et vicariam occupavit ejusdem, pro eo, quod idem
lominus Willelmus a cura et onere ipsi vicariae incumben-
iibus se jam per xxviij dies, absque cansa necessaria probabili
rel honesta, fraudulenter, non obtenta licentia, absentavit,
contra formam sui praestiti juramenti, ut infra novem dies
>ersonaliter resideat in eadem, sub periculo quod incumbit,
ie ipsa vicaria contra laudabilem approbatam et praescrip-
consuetudinem ecclesise praenotataa debitis obsequiis
lefraudetur.
Secunda monifcio facta fuit xxvj die mensis Julii in Capitulo second warning,
et in stallo ; et tertia, xxx die mensis praedicti. Tnirdfao July.
Lapso termino antedicto, die Sabbati proximo post diem
S. Petri ad vincula dictus Willelmus legitime praeconizatus,
et diutius expectatus, non comparuit. Nos vero dictum Wil- Adjourned to
11 J J- o i i j.- • J Saturday,
lelmum usque ad diem Sabbati proximo sequentem duximus iiAug.
expectandum.
Quo die legitime praeconizatus et diutius expectatus non Adjourned to
comparuit. Nos vero ipsum Willelmum ad ejus malitiam Sat->Au^25-
convincendam usque ad diem Sabbati proximum, post diem S.
Bartholomsei,* duximus expectandum, quern diem sibi assing-
namus pro termino peremptorio.
Quo die legitime praeconizatus et diutius expectatus non ^^ne^e t
comparuit. Nos vero nolentes prsecipitanter agere in hac
parte ipsum usque ad diem Lunas proximum ante diem Nati-
vitatis Beatas Marias de benignitate duximus expectandum.
Quo die non comparuit. Nos ad instantiam amicorum suo- At request of
* In 1324, Aug. 24, S. Bartholomew's Day was a Friday,
• 2
52
BEVERLILY MINSTER
toi24dseptj°umed rum ipsum usque ad diem Lunae proximum ante festum
Michaelis duximus expectandum.
Quo die non comparuit legitime praeconizatus. Nos vei
invocata S. Spiritus gratia, sic duximus prommtiandum :
24 Sept.
Sentence of
deprivation '
pronounced.
Upwards of
3 months absent.
Notice had been
given to his
father and
friends in
Melton, his
native place.
Pronuntiatio.
In Dei nomine. Amen. Quia Dominus Willelmus de Melton,
qui se dudum gessit pro vicario prsebendaB S. Michaelis [etc.]
per nos Johannem de Rysindon et Hugonem de Otryngham
[etc.] auctoritate Capituli [etc.] ad infrascripta commissa-
rios conjunctim et divisim specialiter deputatos, monitus
legitime trinis vicibus, ut in vicaria praebendaB praedictas
personaliter resideret juxta formam juramenti praBstiti, sub
periculo quod incumbit; qui quidem Dominus Willelmus a
dicta vicaria jam per tres menses et amplius absque causa
rationabili probabili vel honesta se absentavit, licentia non
optenta, licet hujusmodi monitiones patri ipsius Domini Wil-
lelmi efc aliis parentibus et amicis in villa de Melton, ubi
oriundus existit, et alibi, notificata fuit, residere non curat
nee nostris parere monitionibus in hac parte ;
Idcirco ipsum Dominum Willelmum ipsius absentia, Dei
repleta prassentia, a dicta vicaria privamus seu amovemus
sententialiter et diffinitive in hiis scriptis ; Decernentes ve-
nerabilem virum et discretum Magistrum Gr. de Gropo S.
Petri, canonicum prsebendas memorataB, fore praemuniendum
ut ad dictam vicariam tanquam vacantem praesentet personam
idoneam, ne diutius debitis obsequiis defraudetur.
Datis viij Kalendas Octobris A.D. mmocccmoxxiiij.
1324
24 Sept.
Chapter to Mr.
Wilfrid de Gropo
S. Petri.
Wm. of Melton,
Vicar of your
prebend, has been
deprived for
absenting himself
without leave,
Denuntiatio Canonico.
cvij. 3. — Capitulum [etc.] Reverendo et discrete viro
Magistro Gruilfrido de Grropo S. Petri, concanonico et con-
fratri nostro, Salutem [etc.] .
Quum Dominum Willelmum de Melton, vicariam pras-
bendae vestrae sibi concessam in ecclesia antedicta, absque
justa causa necessaria, probabili vel honesta, temere deseren-
tem, se a cura et onere ipsi vicariaa incumbentibus per
tres menses et amplius absentando, consensu nostro minime
accedente, contra formam in admissione sua ad eandem pras-
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 53
stiti juramenti ; pro quo legitime et peremptorie monitus, et after long delay,
diutius, ob reverentiam domini nostri Eboracensis Archie- enwMrftJJ™*
,.,•,, • . Archbishop, by
piscopr, cujus promotus extitit, et amicorum suorum pro ipso whom he was
interpellantium, expectatus, [quia] ad ipsam redire non curavit, MS tr
et in ipsa corporaliter residere infra terminum congruum sibi "
per nos canonice assignatum, dictam vicariam, juris ordine
observato, canonice privavimus et ipsum ab eadem cum
omnibus suis juribus et pertinentiis sententialiter et diffini-
tive amovimus justitia exigente ;
Yestrae discretion! reverendae dictam vicariam sic esse
vacantem tenore praesentium nuntiamus; vos praevenientes,
quatinus ad ipsam vicariam, ne diutius debitis obsequiis vacant vicarage.
defraudetur, personam idoneam ad eandem curetis nobis,
quatinus commode poteritis, secundum formam constitutionis
super hoc editae praesentare.
Yaleat vestra fraternitas reverenda in amplexibus Salva-
toris dulciter et bene.
Datis Beverlaci viij° Kalendas Octobris A.D. m°cccmoxxiiijto.
Litterss licentise. Harpham.
cvij. b. 2. — Capitulum [etc.] dilecto [etc.] Waltero de 1324.
Harpham uni de septem clericis. chaptlt'
Contemplatione et rogatu Yenerabilis in Christo fratris °J;
Domini Johannis, D. G. Wintoniensis Episcopi, cujus obse- Atrequestof
quiis immoraris devotius excitati Tibi licentiam absen- Jjjhjf ^ nda1-1'
tandi et ipsius obsequiis per biennium insistendi, eo non ^^fb^on.
obstante quod ad personalem et continuam residentiam es JJJJJ™ ce' for his
astrictus ;
Proviso [etc. as on p. 290].
Datis Beverlaci ij° Idus Octobris A.D. m°cccmoxxiiijto.
Super admissione T. de Silesthorn.
cvij. b. 3. — ij Idus Octobris A.D. supradicto, Magister Guil- same day.
fridus de Gropo S. Petri, canonicus et Praebendarius prae- Presentation of
r . Th. of Siggles-
bendae S. Michaehs, praesentavit Dommum Thomam de thorn by Mr.
. . Wilfrid de Gropo
Siglesthorct, capellanum, ad vicariam praebendae suae vacan- s.petrito
• •• T-i • • <nr*n i . • i ' •»«• *i vicarage vacant
tern per canonicam amotionem Domini Willelmi de Melton, kyamovaiof
r . .. . ' Wm. of Melton;
ohm vicaru ejusdem ;
Qui admissus fuit modo consueto et installatus fuit per Admission and
installation by
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
chamberlain, and Camerarium, et assignata fuerunt sibi loca sua in refectorio
et dormitorio per Dominum Willelinum de Swyna. convicarium
. . .
suum ; similiter et inductus 111 corporalem possessionem dictas
.. ..., ,...-, ~ . , .
vicanae cum suis juribus et pertmentiis, de mandate Capituli,
Magistro Dionisio Avenel et dicto G-uilfredo Capitulum
repraesentantibus una cum Auditore ; et habet litteram super
admissione institutione et inductione in forma quas sequitur.*
place iu Refec-
tory and Dortni-
torybyWm. of
Swine, co-vicar.
1324
22 Oct.
Th. of Grimsby,
vicar of S.
Stephen's pre-
bend, appeared
in Chapter before
Mr. H. of Carlton,
prebendary of the
same prebend,
and the Assessor,
and resigned.
The same day
repented, and
on the interven-
tion of his fellow
vicars [was
readmitted].
Resignatio T. de G-rimesby.
cvij. b. 3. — xj Kalendas Novembris A.D. supradicto : Domi-
nus Thomas de Grrimesby, vicarius praabendas S. Stephani
comparuit in Capitulo, Magistro Henrico de Carleton dictse
praabendae praabendario praesente, una cum Auditore Capitu-
lum faciente, et vicariam suam cum suis juribus et perti-
nentiis universis in maims Capituli pure, sponte et simpliciter
resignavit ;
Qua admissa eodem die resignationis suae supra, factas
plurimum poenitebat, et per interventionem sociorum et de
benignitate *
1324.
18 Dec,
Letters Patent
of Chapter.
On letter of Mr.
Robt. of Picker-
ing testifying to
the admission of
John of Honisea
as perpetual
vicar of S.
Martin's pre-
bend.
Super inductione in corporalem possessionem vicarii.
Hornese.
cvj. b. — Universis pateat per praesentes quod Nos Capitu-
lum [etc.] litteras reverendi et discreti viri Magistri Roberti
de Pikering, concanonici et confratris nostri recepimus
tenorem continens infrascriptum.
Reverendis viris [etc.] ut supra in xxxmo folio de admis-
sione Johannis de Hornese.
Harum igitur virtute litterarum dictum Dominum Johan-
nem ad dictam vicariam admisimus_, et instituimus per-
petuum vicarium canonice in eadem, et ipsum, assignato sibi
stall o in choro ac omnibus aliis debitis et consuetis in hac
parte plenius observatis, prout consuetude ecclesiae nostrse
praedictaa exigit et requirit, in possessionem dictas vicariaa
cum suis juribus et pertinentiis universis induximus cor-
poralem.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum praesentibus est
appensum.
* f. cviij and cix. are unfortunately torn out.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 55
Datis Beverlaci xviijvo die Decembris A.D. supradicto, sicut
in littera praesentationis.
Otringham : super inductions ad possessionem.*
ccxl. b. 2. — Universis pateat per praBsentes quod Nos 129J.
Capitulum [etc.] ad praesentationem reverendi et discreti -viri
Magistri [MS. stained] de Bellomonte, Concanonici et con-
fratris nostri, Hugonem de Otringham [MS. stained] ad
vicariam praebendae suae in ecclesia memorata vacantem ad of Beaumont-
[MS. stained] [intelleximus] perpetuum vicarium canonice
in eadem, et ipsum assignato sibi stallo [MS. stained]
debitis in hac parte plenius observatis, prout con-
suetudo [MS. stained] in corporalem possessionem dictaa
vicariae cum suis juribus et [MS. stained].
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum praesentibus est
[MS. stained] Antonii Confessoris A.D. m° duodecimo xcj°.
Decano Lincolniensi pro qussstu.
ccxlj. 2. — Yiris venerabilibus et discretis Dominis Henrico 132-f-.
Decano et Capitulo ecclesiaB Beatae Mariae Lincolniensi chapter^oDe
Humile et devotum Capitulum [etc. Letter on behalf of
Rd son of Laurence Monechaunte, clerk, collector in Lincoln
diocese.] Die S. Mathiae Apostoli.
Episcopo Lincolniensi pro qussstu.
ccxlj. b. 1.— Letter to same effect as last. chapter" to Bishop
of Lincoln.
Th. Grimesby.
ccxlj. b 2.—
Dominus Thomas de Grimsby vicarius
/ . Th. of Grimsby,
coram venerabilis Capituli ecclesias vicar, summoned
. . , . . for adultery.
borantem super crimine adultem
fornicatione cum Matilda de Bautre
fuisset legitime evocatus : Idem Dominus
forma vocationis sibi factae de hujusmodi
nem offer ens cum effectu
* This seems to have been written here as a precedent for the last document,
BEVEKLEY MINSTER :
purges himself,
is restored to
good fame,
182f
23 March.
Orders.
2 acolytes.
4 subrdeacons.
3 deacons.
3 priests.
nem fecit. Propter quod ipsum bonse
[suae famae pristinae] restituimus per decretum. In cujus
[rei testimonium] sentibus est appensum. Datis Beverlaci
cccmoxxiiij°.
Clerici missi ad or dines.
ccxlij. — Yenerabili [etc.]. J. de Anlaghby et Hugo de
Humbelton ad ordinem acolitus.
Willelmus de Leven
W. de Ketby
Symon de Garton
W. de Multhorp
G-alfridus de Barun
J. de Baynton
W. de Swyn
J. de Patrington
ad ordinem subdiaconatus.
diaconatus.
Amandus de Fitling „ presbiteratus.
Thomas de Halsam
Datis Beverlaci x Kalendas Aprilis A.D. m°cccmoxxiiij.to.
1325.
Canons share in
daily distribu-
tions of the
Bedern, viz. :
eatables and
drinkables,
every day though
absent not only
from the ilinster
but the town,
against common
law and a special
statute.
Articles by Archbishop against Chapter.
ex. — . . . . * et juxta exigentiam juris communis neque
constitutionis seu ordinationis praedictarum : Licet de con-
sensu unanimi omnium et singulorum tune Canonicorum
dictae ecclesiae, ac ad submissionem et requissitionem eorun-
dem et eorum cujuslibet dicta ordinatio procedebat.
Hiis non contenti dicti canonici, ut praedicitur, absentes et
nullatenus residentes, cotidianas distributiones a Bederna,
videlicet esculenta sua et poculenta non modica, pro sustenta-
tione sua et suorum singulis diebus, etiam quibus absentes
fuerint tarn a dicta ecclesia quam villa Beverlacensi, nee
aliquibus horis canonicis interfuerint in ecclesia antedicta,
exegerunt, exigi procurarunt et fecerunt, ac per multa
retroacta tempora perceperunt, contra formam vim et effectum
tarn juris communis quam cujuslibet constitutionis super eis
editae, et scienter, ut videtur, non absque contemptu canonum,
ac statuentium et ordinantium jus et constitutiones praedictas.
preceding page has been torn out.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 57
Quodque iidem Canonici et praebendarii habentes prae-
bendas suas, videlicet, portiones ecclesiae Beverlacensis having prebends,
' ' r i.e. portions in
dudum parochialis, subsequenter in diversas prasbendas et the church of
1 a m t Beverley formerly
portiones divisas ac utvidetur non modicam curam animarum a parish church,
afterwards
obtinentes ; parochianosque degentes, quosdam etiam quam- divided into
plnres in remotis et locis valde disfcantibus ab ecclesia nowwfloureaf
souls, some of
Beverlacensi praedicta, et curam animarum eorundem parochi- them far from
3 r Beverley, have
anorum annexam in quibus non nabent nee nabuerunt suis no vicars insti-
.... . . tuted by the
temporibus perpetuos vicarios institutes auctoritate ordinaria ordinary or other
m T* sufficient
neque sufficient!,, excepto praebendano altaris Beati Martini ; authority, except
} . . r . ' the Prebendary
qua? cura per vicarios stallorum in choro dictas ecclesiae of s. Martin's
. ... altar-
Beverlacensis competenter fferi non potuit, neque potent
r -.....,, Yet the stall
quoquomodo. obstante perplexitate seu facti incompossibi- vicars cannot
. , . . . .. possibly attend
litate, videlicet, attenta mas^na locorum distantia, et quod totQe
„ . . i parishioners, by
idem vicarn stallorum ex constitutione, fundatione et ordma- reason of the
n . . T . ., . distance and
tione ac consuetudme enusdem ecclesias omnibus et smguhs impossibility of
i . . . . . ,.. n. . . _ .. . being in two
noris canonicis ac missis et ams divmis omens in eadem places at once.
personaliter interesse tenentur et tenebantur, ac etiam con-
sueverunt, et nihilominus praedicti Canonici et praebendarii
ut praedicitur personaliter residere consueverunt.
Et quod iidern canonici et praebendarii singuli praeten- The canons and
dentes eis competere jus percipiendi diversas travas diver- pretend that they
sorum bladorum de singulis carucatis terrae, seu carucis, ut K
*
dicitur, divisim infra Archidiaconatum Estriding nostras plough in th
T ., , . Eastriding from
dioccesis exigunt; et exegerunt, a manibus laicorum, et per the laity and by
manus eorundem laicorum parochianorum indifferenter every pariah, and
quarumlibet ecclesiarum, infra quarum parochias et a quibus even from the
eas deberi asserunt de decimis ipsis ecclesiis debitis sub- parish churches6
trahendas et deducendas, et per manus eorundem laicorum
. . T .. ,-... n...by law intoler-
percipiendaSj et canonicis et praebendams praedictis sic abie,andnot
solvendas : Licet de jure praemissa exactio et perceptio theasubject o{ng
intollerabiles videantur, nee de consuetudine introduci poterit corraption!her
quovismodo, potissime, ut praedicitur, per manus laicorum.
cum consuetude dici non poterit sed potius corruptela in
grave periculum animarum praedictorum, ut praedicitur,
delinquentium et in nostri officii pastoralis et curias prae-
judicium manifestum.
ex. b. — Super quibus etiam laborat puplica vox et fama, Hence grave
immo sunt puplica notoria et manifesta, ac super hiis grave
scandalum est exortum et de graviore timetur verisimiliter,
nisi aponatur celeriter remedium oportunum.
Et quod singuli canonici praebendarii in quoscunque TheCanonsand
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
exercise and
claim spiritual
jurisdiction,
including
suspension, ex-
communication,
and absolution,
over all their
tenants and
parishioners.
tenentes et parochianos suos, degentes in suis prsebendis
seu portionibus antedictis, exercuerunt, et se exercere posse
et debere vendicant seu preetendunt, jurisdictionem spiritua-
lem, congnoscendo, suspendendo, excommunicando, absol-
vendo etiam in foro contentioso et judicial! contra jura
communia, et in dictorum parochianorum periculum ani-
marum.
Chapter to Abp.
Wm. Melton.
Answers to
articles at
Visitation.
1. As to
Kesidence. By
common law,
since they have
perpetual priest-
vicars they are
excused.
As to Abp. J. the
Boman's Ordin-
ance it was
altered by Abp.
W. Greenfield's,
and the Kesiden-
tiary Canons
reside accord-
ingly :
which should
suffice, it seems.
Responsiones ad articulos prsedictos.
ex. b. 2. — Pater Reverende, ad reformationem, si placet,
pro vestra conscientia servanda, clerici vestri, Prsebendarii
et Canonici vestrse Beverlacensis ecclesise ad articulos in
Yisitatione vestra compertos dicunt, cum reverentia quaa
decet,
Videlicet ;
Ad primum; ubi tangitur de residentia, de jure commuiii
videtur eis ex quo habent vicarios perpetuos et sacerdotes,
quod de residentia excusantur.
Quantum ad aliam partem in eodem articulo, de constitu-
tione et ordinatione bonse memorise Johannis, nuper Ebora-
censis Archiepiscopi, Anglise primatis, dicunt, ipsam con-
stitutionem seu ordinationem per pias memorise Willelmum
de G-renfeld, Eboracensem Archiepiscopum, et vestrum
prsedecessorem immediatum, moderatam esse sicut manifesto
liquere poterit per statutum et ordinationem ejusdem ; et
secundum moderationem illam, virtutem et effectum ejusdem,
Canonici Residentes in ecclesia resident memorata et hoc
debet sufficere, ut videtur.
2. Two points ;
(1) that those
absent sometime?
far away,
(2) those never
resident at all,
receive daily
distribution, viz.
food and drink,
from the Bedern.
Answer is, these
are not daily
distributions, as
you call them,
but are properly
called corrodies
and are the
corpus of the
prebends.
So much so that
Abp. Wm. Green-
Item, quantum ad secundum articulum, continentem in
se duo; quod absentes, et quandoque longe, et nullatenus
residentes cotidianas distributiones a Bederna, scilicet
esculenta et poculenta, singulis diebus percipiunt.
Respondent quod ilia poculenta et esculenta, quse coti-
dianas appellastis distributiones, vere dicuntur corrodia, et
sunt de corporibus prsebendarum suarum, et, salva reverentia,
non sunt distributiones cotidianse tales de quibus jura faciunt
mentionem, ut non debeantur absentibus, vel etiam prse-
sentibus nisi intersint horis canonicis. Et prseterea dictus
predecessor vester Willelmus sectionem hujusmodi portionum,
quse corrodia appellantur, contra Concilium Turonense factam,
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 59
praebendis suis omnino redintegrari voluit et ad jungi, forma partition of
residentiae per dictum praedecessorem vestrum Johannem these corrodies
1 ... contrary to the
ordinata nullatenus obsistente ; Ita ut sinp-uli Caiionici singula council of Tours,
and ordered them
corrodia ad praebendas suas spectantia tam absentes inte- ^h^ereas^red
graliter percipiant quam praesentes. caCnonedresenteor
absent.
Item ad tertium articulum, quod habent vicarios perpetuos
auctoritate sufficient^ viz. singulos vicarios per singulos
canonicos praesentatos Capitulo, et per Capitulum admissos, cTapteJ° hav
et perpetuos vicarios institutes, curamque vicariarum, et ^n^o? hicarages
animarum ad ipsas vicarias spectantium, traditas eisdem, et
sic observatum est, et fuit, pacifice et inconcusse scientibus et
tollerantibus praedecessoribus vestris a tempore, et citra;
cujus contrarii memoria non existit.
Quantum autem ad id, quod dicitur in eodem articulo,
obstante perplexitate sive facti incompossibilitate, attenta
magna locorum distantia, etc. ; J££; fs of the
Dicunt, quod parochiani singularum praebendarum veniunt Answer: The
ad altaria sua in ecclesia Beverlacensi praebendis suis assig- coSetoSr
nata, et ibi recipiunt omnia sacramenta et sacramentalia, aitaersaintheendal
praeterquam in casu infirmitatis, senectutis vel debilitatis, et sacraments; and,
tune accedunt vicarii ad parochianos illos, ubi degunt, pro
sacramentis pceniteiitise et eukaristias ministrandis eisdem.
Et nichilominus quilibet Canonicus habet unum clericum
pro stallo suo_, cui dat certam mercedem in adjutorium et
supplementum obsequii ecclesiae. forTs sSiaatlerk
Et haec ad articulum sufficere debent ut videtur. StlSvice
of the church.
Item quoad articulum de Travis,
Dicunt quod jam faciunt convocationem specialem ad tempus 4. AstoThraves,
in brevi venturum et de travis tractabunt. Et post trac- sho?tayetf hTve a
tatum, vobiscum, pater reverende, si placet, secretius voluerint
vobiscum loqui, quia vos estis patronus praebendarum.
with you as the
Patron of the
Ad ultimum articulum de jurisdictione spiritual^ salva P
vestra reverentia, dicunt canonici nunc praesentes, quod
nullum in parochianos suos jurisdictionem vendicant spiritu.-
alem, set in suos tenentes et residentes bene vendicant
jurisdictionem spiritualem, et exercent, cognoscendo, suspen-
dendo, excommunicando et absolvendo, etiam ut in foro
contentioso et judiciali, et jurisdictionem temporalem, ac
is mixed and
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
merely temporal :
as Int'aiigthief,
Outfangthief,
and others.
And for these
rights they make
claim before
Justices in Eyre.
6. As to that
which is said to
have been dis-
covered at your
Visitation ; that
S. John's shrine
is moved from
the altar for 4 or
5 days at Roga-
tion time.
Answer : They
do only what has
been done from
time immemorial.
Wherefore as
regards the
articles aforesaid
they ask you to
let them depart
in peace.
As to the Clerks
of the Bearskin
they show the
Ordinance of
Abp. John the
Roman ; and
considering it,
ask you to
preserve the
authority of the
Canons undimin-
ished.
vero ea quas sunt mixti et meri imperil, ut puta, infangtheft
(sic) outfangthef, et alia.
Et de hiis et aliis faciunt suum clamium in itinere justi-
ciariorum.
Item, ad hoc quod dicitur compertum in vestra Visitatione,
viz. Feretrum S. Johannis amotum esse ab altare per quatuor
dies, vel quinque, temporibus Rogationum ;
Dicunt quod nulla est facta mutatio de novo seu innovate,
sed eodem modo et per omnia observatur in praesentia, et
non aliter, quam servabatur a tempore cujus contrarii
memoria non existit.
Unde supplicant vestras paternitati reverendae extra judi-
cialiter humiliter et devote, quatinus dignetur super pras-
missis articulis vestris favorabiliter eos dimittere in pace, et
statum eorum paterna dementia tollerare.
Item quantum ad Clericos de Berefellis ostendunt vobis
ordinationem bonae memoriae Johannis, supplicantes ut,
pensata ordinatione hujusmodi et ponderato tenore suorum
juramentorum in admissione eorundem praestitorum, placeat
vobis beningne potestatem sive auctoritatem vestrorum
Canonicorum servare illaesam, ut sic per eosdem clericos
ecclesiae vestrae Beverlacensi melius serviatur.
1325.
27 March.
Abp. Wm.
Melton to
Chapter.
Summon Canons
W. de Gropo, Hy.
of Carlton, and
6 Vicars named,
for next law day
after Trinity
Sunday to
answer J. the
porter and W.
Bowett, on
certain articles
found at the
Visitation.
[Gitatio super compertis in Visit atione.~]
cxij. 3. — Willelmus permissione divina [etc.] dilectis filiis
Capitulo [etc.].
Citetis peremptorie Magistros Guilfredum de Gropo,
Henricum de Carlton, canonicos, Dominos Alanum de Hum-
belton, Johannem de Hornse, Thomam de Syghlestorn, E. de
eadem, Johannem de Bisindon et Thomam de Grymmesby,
vicarios [etc.] quod compareant coram nobis proximo die
juridico post festum S. Trinitatis proximo futurum, ubi-
cunque tune fuerimus in nostra diocoesi, Johanni le Porter et
Willelmo Bnnet super quibusdam articulis in visitatione
nostra quam ibidem ultimo exercuimus compertis, divisim
responsuros, facturus ulterius et recepturus quod justitia
suadebit.
Et nos de citatione sic facta, ac omni eo quod feceritis in
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 61
praemissis, citra dictum diem certificetis distincte et aperte
per vestras litteras patentes, harum seriem continentes.
Valete.
Datis apud Burton juxta Beverlacum vj Kalendas Aprilis
A.D. m°cccmo xxmo quinto, et Pontificatus nostri octavo.
Prsesentatio capellse de Mollscroft.
cxj. b. 2. — Venerabili in Christo patri domino Domino 1325.
Willelmo, Dei gratia [etc.], Capitulum [etc.]. oha$»JtSi
Ad cantariam Beatae Marias de Molscroft per vos; ut Wm-Melton-
dicitur, ordinatam Dilectum nobis in Christo Dominum
Willelmum Wrigth de Otringham, in ordine sacerdotali
constitutum, nobis per Eogerum Ingelberd de Beverlaco JSSSSSby Abp,
nominatum, Yestrae paternitati reverendae secundum ordi-
nationem vestram praedictam praesentamus, supplicantes ofBeverley-
humiliter et devote quatinus ipsum ad dictam Cantariam
dmgnemiiii admittere et capellanum instituere in eadem,
salvo jure ecclesiae Beverlacensis et prasbendarum ejusdem.
Yaleat vestra paternitas reverenda per tempora prospera
et longaava.
Datis Beverlaci vto Kalendas Aprilis A.D. m°cccmo xxvto.
Nominatio.
Venerabili Capitulo [etc.] vel ipsius vices gerenti, Eogerus 132-f.
Ingelberd de Beverlaco se ipsum cum omni reverentia et
h rm nrp of Beverley to
re- Chapter.
Willelmum Wright de Otringham capellanum latorem Nomination of
praesentium in ordine sacerdotali constitutum, virum utique
honestum et ydoneum, nomino vobis praeseiitandum venera-
bili patri ac domino, Domino Willelmo, Dei gratia [etc.], ad
perpetuam cantariam capellae Beatae Mariae virginis de
Molskroft per ipsum venerabilem patrem juxta ordinationem
suam factam in hac parte admittendum.
In cujua rei testimonium sigillum meum praesentibus est
appensum.
Datis apud Beverlacum xij Kalendas Aprilis A.D. m°cccmo
XXV0.*
Quaa quidem littera est inter litteras praesentatorias
vicariorum.
* This seems to be a mistake for xxiv.
BEVEKLEY MINSTER :
1325.
21 April.
W. Wright of
Ottringham of
Molescroft
appeared to take
oath of fealty to
Chapter in
respect of Moles-
croft Chapel
according to the
Archbishop's
Ordinance.
Matter postponed
for production of
Ordinance :
produced, aud
oath taken.
De capellano capellw.
ccxlij. 2. — xi Kalendas Mali A.D. supradicto; Dorninus
Willelmus Wrigthe de Otringliam de Molscroffr, capellanus
capellas de Molscroft, comparuit coram venerabili viro
Magistro [Benedicto] de Paston, canonico ecclesias [etc.], et
Auditore dictae ecclesiae (MS. stained)) Thoma de Harpham
et Willelmo de Tenelby, oiferens se (MS. stained) juramen-
tum Capitulo secundum ordinationem venerabilis patris (MS.
stained) de dicta cantariam factam :
Et quia dictam ordinationem (MS. stained) dicti Magister
Benedictus et Auditor assignaverunt, ( . . . proxime sequen-
tem ad exhibendum et ostendendum dictam . . . vim formam
et effectum ipsius quod juris fuerit.
Comparuit coram Capitulo Magistro . . . Capitulum re-
prsesentantibus et jura
exhibuit, praestitit inspectis.
1325.
23 April.
Letters Patent
of Chapter.
Appointing Mr.
W. of Hunmanby
proctor in all
ecclesiastical
causes.
Procuratorium.
ccxlij. b. — Universis pateat per praesentes quod Nos
Capitulum [etc.] in omnibus et singulis causis et negotiis,
querelis et quasstionibus et articulis motis vel movendis, per
nos vel contra nos coram quibuscunque judicialibus compe-
tentibus qualemcunque notitiam habentibus^ sive ad partis
vel partium instantiam sive ex officio procedentibus quibus-
cunque die et loco, Dilectuin nobis in Christo Magistrum
Willelmum de Hunmanby, clericum, prassentium exhibitorem,
nostrum facimus, ordinamus et constituimus verum et legiti-
mum procuratorem ;
Dantes eidem [etc.] .
Datis Beverlaci ix Kalendas Maii A.D. m°cccmoxxmo quinto.
1325.
29 April.
Convocation.
7 Canons present,
and Huggate by
proxy.
A.D. m°ccc°xxv0 Acta in convocatione.
xvj. — Celebrata penultimo die mensis Aprilis A.D. millesimo
ccc°xxvto.
Praesentibus in eadem Magistro Roberto de Pikering,
Henrico de Carlton, Dionisio Avenel, Benedicto de Paston,
Gilfrido de Grropo Sancti Petri, Koberto de Northburgh, et
Domino Willelmo de Sothill, Canonicis, et Domino Nicholao
de Hugat per Magistmm Alanum de Gotham.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 63
In primis, habito tractatu de iuribus consuetudinibus et A tenth of the
r ' J prebends granted
libertatibus ecclesiae, habitis etiam inspectione cartarum et for the defence
. . . . of the rights,
munimentomm huius ecclesias pro continuatione iurium, liberties, and
J . customs of the
consuetudiiium et libertatum. concesserunt decimam pre- church, and
1 collected and
bendarum suarum necnon a portione Sacristae : et collecta given to wmiam
, of Soothill for his
fuit et liberata Domino Willelmo de Sothill pro negoths business in the
court of King's
ecclesiao expediendis in curia Domini Regis, prout inferius Bench.
liquere poterit, et missae fuerunt litterae personis infra- Letters sent as
scrip tis.
Littera credcntice.
Magnae reverentiae viro Domino W. de Aerminne Canonico Snmi of York""
Eboracensi, nostro confidenti amico, Capitulum ecclesias
Beati Johaiinis Beverlacensis, Salutem et honoris cumulum
in sinceris amplexibus Salvatoris ;
De multis et variis beneficiis nobis et ecclesiae nostras weareas
grateful as we
Sancti Johannis per vos hactenus liberaliter impensis, et know how for
r past benefits, and
futuris temporibus prout speramus. impendendis. fifratias relying on their
r r continuance ask
vobis referimus quantum scimus efc quia de vestrae solitas pnr lordship «o
^ * help W. of
bomtatis continuatione nduciam genmus special em. vestras soothm.our
r ' fellow canon
dommationis amicitiam attente rogamus, quatmus in negotus in matters
A 3 he will explain
nos et ecclesiam nostram concernentibus per Dominum W. vivdvoce.
de Sothill, concanonicum et confratrem nostrum, vobis si
placet viva voce exponendis efficax consilium impendere, et
ut feliciter expediatur, manus adjutrices apponere dignemini
graciose ;
Tantum. si placet, inde facientes, ut s-loriosissimi con- Doing our best
P . , . J^ , . T , . ... ' . .. in return that
tessoris nostri ±>eati Jonannis merita in a^endis sinsfulis vos the merits of our
, .. . . ° , . glorious Con-
eo prastextu volumus committentur, et nos ea occasione vobis fessor, John, may
. . ,. , . • r , be imputed to
et vestris artius astringamur in tuturum. you, and we more
Valete in Domino Christo et matre ejus Virgine gloriosa. yoTin future.
Datis Beverlaci iij Nonas Maii A.D. supradicto. 5 May, 1325.
Littera credentice.
xvi. 3. — Magnse discretionis viro Magistro Roberto de 1S25
Baldok/* Archidiacono Suthsex, et Serenissimi Principis 5 May.
Domini nostri Eegis Angliae Cancellario, nostro confidenti Baido°ck,rA?Ch-
n • , i ^ -r»]'TT--i-» . deacon of Sussex,
amico, Gapitulum ecclesiao Beati Johams Beverlacensis,, and chancellor
Salutem et honoris cumulum in sinceris amplexibus Sal-
Vatoris.
* He was afterwards Dean of St. Paul's and Bishop of London.
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
To same effect
as last letter.
De multis et variis beneficiis nobis et ecclesiao nostrse
Beati Johannis per vos hactenus liberaliter impensis, et
futuris temporibus, prout speramus, impendences gratias
vobis referimus quantum scimus, et quia de vestrae solitaB
bonitatis continuatione fidem gerimus specialem, vestrse
domination] s amicitiam attente rogamus, quatinus in negotiis
nos et ecclesiam nostram concernentibus per Dominum W. de
Sothill concanonicum et confratrem nostrum vobis si placet,
viva voce expendendis efficax consilium impendere, et ut
feliciter expediatur manus adjutrices imponere dignemini
graciose ;
Tantum, si placet, indefacientes ut gloriosissimi confessoris
nostri Beati Johannis merita in agendis singulis vos eo
prastextu volumus committentur et nos ea occasione vobis et
vestris artius astringamur in futuris.
Yalete in Domino Christo et matre ejus Virgine gloriosa.
Datis Beverlaci iiij Nonas Maii A.D. supradicto.
1325.
5 May.
Chapter to Roger,
Bishop of
Coventry and
Lichfield.
Littera credentice.
A.D. m°CCC°XXVto.
xvi. b. 1. — Yenerabili in Christo patri et domino, Domino
Rogero,*" Dei gratia, Conventrensi et Lichfeldensi Bpiscopo,
Capitulum ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis, Salutem,
reverentiam, et honorem debitum tanto patri pariter et
devote [etc. verbatim as to the others].
10 marks
borrowed and
given to Sothill :
the loan to be
raised by a levy
of 9d. in the £
on each prebend
and the Sacrist's
portion.
xvi. b. 2. — Item in eadem Convocatione receptse fuerunt
decem marcse ex mutuo, et liberatse dicto Domino Willelmo
pro negotiis ecclesise expediendis ut supra ; ad quarum solu-
tionem faciendam levabantur de singulis t libris singularum
prebendarum et portionis Sacristae ixd.
The clerks in
St. Mary's
Clerici Eccle&iw Beatce Marice.
Item, in eadem convocatione consensum fuit unanimiter
* Roger de Northburgh, who had been Canon of Beverley until his collation
to the Bishopric of Coventry and Lichfield.
f This is an interesting entry as showing the total income of the Canons and
Treasurer ; viz., £177 odd, a sum equal to at least £3,540 of our money ; no bad
amount to divide amongst ten people, most of whom had other emoluments of
equal, or as in the case of Pickering, Dean of York, of far greater value.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 65
quod iiij01' clerici ministraturi in ecclesia Beatae Mariae Capi- Rented0 toeand
tulo praesententur, et si ydonei inventi fuerint admittantur,
et ad suos ordines ut clerici chori, per Capitulum praesen-
tentur, et ut clerici habeantur sicut aliquando praeteritis
temporibus extiterunt.
Homagium Domini Willelmi de Tweng.
cxij. 1. ij. Idus Maii A.D. m°cccmo vicesimo quinto Dominus 1325.
Willelmus de Tweng, miles,, comparuit in Capitulo [etc.], sir
Magistris Henrico de Carlton, Dionisio Avenel, Benedicto de
Paston et Guilfrido de Gropo S. Petri tune ipsum Capitulum
repraesentantibus, recognovit se tenere de dicto Capitulo
manerium suum de Hoctonholm in parochia de Leven cum
omnibus suis juribus et pertinentiis, pro homagio suo ; red-
dendo inde annuatim eidem Capitulo j marcam in die Nativi-
tatis S. Johannis Baptistae pro omnimodis saecularibus servitiis
etc. ;
Factaque reconsmitione praemissa fecit homagium suum in and did homage
T j- iir • I • TT • • -i ^ • n •. i to Mr. H. of
manu dicti Magistri Henrici, ad hoc per ipsum Oapitulum cariton for the
specialiter deputati, in forma debita et etiam consueta;
factoque homagio suo fatebatur se juramentum fidelitatis in ledged the oath
forma debita antea legitime praastitisse.
Acquietancia expensarum.
cxij. 2. — Universis pateat per prsesentes quod Ego Johannes 1325.
de Kisindon, Camerarius ecclesiae [etc.], decimae praebend-
arum dictae ecclesiae et portionis Sacristaa, necnon et ix.d. de N
qualibet libra, dictarum praebendarum et portionis in Convo-
catione ultimo celebrata pro certis negotiis ecclesiaB expedi-
endis concessorum, necnon expensarum circa communia negotia
ecclesiae a festo Ascensionis dominicae A.D. m°cccmoxxiiijto usque ff'commo'Ashare
ad idem festum anno revoluto collector specialiter deputatus, expenses, 6s. sjd.
de reverendo viro Domino Nicholao de Hugate, canonico et
praabendario praebendae S. Jacobi in ecclesia memorata, per
manus Willelmi de Hugate procurators sui, videlicet, pro
decima dictae praebendae quinquaginta duos8, pro novemd
de qualibet libra dictae praebendae decem et novem3 sexd,
pro communibus expensis praedictis sex8 quinqued et quad-
rantem; de qua quidem pecunia fateor mihi esse plenarie
satisfactum.
VOL. II. p
BEVEKLEY MINSTER :
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum praesentibus esl
appensum.
Datis Beverlaci xij Kalendas Junii A.D. m°cccmoxx quinto.
1325.
30 May.
Appointment by
Canon H. of
Carlton of
John of York as
his proctor in all
ecclesiastical
courts in all
matters touching
himself and his
prebend of S.
Stephen in the
Minster.
Procuratorium.
cxij. b. 1. — Pateat universis per praesentes quod ego,
Henricus de Carlton, canonicus ecclesiae [etc.] ac prseben-
darius praebendae S. Stephani in eadem,
In omnibus causis et negotiis personam meam seu praeben-
dam meam praedictam qualitercunque contingentibus, ex
officio vel ad partis instantiam motis seu movendis, coram
quibuscunque judicibus ordinariis delegatis, eorumve com-
missariis, aut aliis qualemcunque jurisdictionem seu vocationem
habentibus vel etiam habituris quibuscunque diebus et locis,
quotiens me adesse contigerit vel abesse, Dilectum mihi in
Christo Johannem de Eboraco, clericum, exhibitorem prae-
sentium, procuratorem meum verum et legitimum, ordino
facio et constituo per praesentes.
Dans eidem [etc.] .
In cujus rei testimonium, quia sigillum meum plerisque est
incognitum, sigillum Yenerabilis Capituli [etc.] apponi prae-
sentibus procuravi.
Datis Beverlaci iij° Kalendas Junii A.D. m°cccmo vicesimo
quinto.
Procuratorium .
1325.
30 May.
Appointment by
6 Vicars of
Minster of John
of York as proc-
tor in all eccle-
siastical courts
concerning them
or any of them
and their vicar-
ages.
cxij. b. 2. — Noverint universi quod Nos Alanusde Humbel-
ton, Johannes de Hornse, Thomas de Grymmesby, Thomas
de Siglestorne, Robertus de Syllestorn, et Johannes de Bisin-
don, vicarii ecclesiae [etc.] in omnibus causis et negotiis nos
vel aliquem nostrum seu vicarias nostras vel alicujus nostrum
communiter vel divisim qualitercunque tangentibus ex officio
vel ad instantiam partis [etc., as in last], Dilectum nobis in
Christo Johannem de Eboraco [etc., as in last] .
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum Venerabilis Capituli Beati
Johannis praedicti procuravimus hiis apponi.
Datis Beverlaci iij Kalendas Junii A.D. m°cccmo vicesimo
quinlo.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 67
Per W. de Suthill.
xvij. — Reverendis viris, et discretis amicis et confratribus 1325.
suis carissimis, Venerabili Capitulo Beverlacensi eorum Con-
canonicus humilis et confrater, Willelmus de Suthill, Quic- the°cha0pter.
quid possit affectio.
Diligenter habito consilio et tractatu cum Domino Willelmo
de Herlaston, et Domino Johanne de Crosseby, cui promissum
erat in ecclesia Beverlacensi de prima prebenda vacatura per was promised0
Praspositum, Willelmo de Denum, et aliis narratoribus, peti- ^ca^fa?™13
tiones ecclesiae nostrae Beverlacensis proposui coram Cancel- wnuanfof Dden-
lario Domini Eegis ; quia ad ipsum Kegem mini non patebat £01!^ onhf
accessus, et si patuisset, mini relatum fuit per eosdem quod me ^matter to te
ad Cancellarium remisisset ; Unde, proposita coram eo petitione ^ i cou?dnotr
super travas, statim mihi respondit, quod nullo modo conce- fing?cess to th
deret mihi breve contra detentores earum, antequam discu- He immediately
j • , ' -r* 1- • T i I • • r • • , answered he
tiatur in Jrarliamento cuiusmodi breve super mis iuerit conce- would grant no
,J . . ., f. . , writ till it had
aendum. asserens nos abuti priviles'io nobis in nac parte con- been discussed
' . , . in Parliament
cesso, quia percepimus travas antequam decima persolvatur. what writ
. " . a • "• should go, as we
contra mentem donatorum qui non intendebant decimis had exceeded
T T, -i TI , T . . our rights in
aliqualiter derog'are : Jit ex alia parte, quia percepimus travas taking thraves
^., —•* 1 • -,• • * before tithes
de carucis arantibus per mior vel quinque dies contra inten- were paid, and
,. ., r, . , . , ,. from ploughs
tionem^ ut asseruit, donatorum ; et istam intormationem only working
habuit de germano suo, qui fuit Eector Ecclesise de Welton, againstathe
et aliis singulis Rectoribus, qui contra nos sunt inflammati ti°on°.rs
hac de causa. Et ita mihi respondit in consilio coram Domi-
nis Exoniensi et Wyntoniensi Episcopis et Willelmo de Bare- S*r^ormerly
ford et Galfrido le Scrope, Justiciariis, breve vero super Welton-
-,.-, .., . . ., . .. . P -.. This answer was
libertatibus nostris mini concessit in torma, quam vobis given in council
mitto, praesentibus interclusa. Nee adhibuit fidem tenori of the Bishops of
. . . . , . , Winchester and
cartas quam ei ostendi nisi orisfinalem viaeret. Exeter, and
-n -ir -I. £ -.. • x n -x 1 William of Ber-
De illis autem, quibus fuit scriptum per Capitulum nostrum, ford and Geof-
viz., Episcopo Cestreiisi, Willelmo de Ayermymne et Magistro Sices.
Henrico de Cliff, non fuit aliquis praesens in Curia in adventu
meo nee usque in diem praesentem. Intellexi taroien quod
Dominus Willelmus ad civitatem infra triduum de transmarinis He would give
..-, ... -p,.... no credit to our
partibus erat venturus. Et dicunt Jusfciciarn et narratores charter, which i
, , i showed, without
et supportores de uaiicellario, seorsum tamen et secrete, quod, seeing the
Cancellarius nobis injuriatur ; unde si volueritis quod ego
expectem Parliamentum, propositurus negotium istud per
petitionem, vel quod ad vos redeam, mihi signare velitis quam
tocius per praesentium portatorem. wmiam of Ayr
68
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
min was coming
from abroad in
3 days.
The Justices and
counsel say pri-
vately that the
Chancellor
blames us. So if
you wish me to
await Parlia-
ment or return,
let me know by
bearer.
S. Paul's,
6 June.
In Christo Jesu perpetuo et feliciter valeatis.
Sancti Pauli London isto die Jovis proximo post festum
Sanctae Trinitatis.
1325.
12 June.
The Chapter to
Canon W.
Soothill.
Your letter
arrived at 6 a.m.
on Monday,
10 June.
Better stop for
Parliament.
We will send
you the original
charter.
The writ, a copy
of which you
enclose, seems
very defective,
as the notes on
the back will
show. Get it
amended, but as
we are ignorant
of the custom of
the Court use
your discretion.
As to the
charges about
our collection of
thraves it will be
enough to an-
swer. " Suffer us
to take the
thraves as they
have been taken
for 400 years
and upwards,
viz. from the
time of King
Athelstan of
happy memory :
we ask for no-
thing new ; but to
be protected in
the ancient
rights of our
Church, those
especially which
we have from
the bounty of
Kings."
Dated early in
the morning of
12th June.
1325.
20 June.
Chapter to W. of
Soothill.
Responsum.
Capitulum ecclesiaa Beati Johannis Beverlacensis Reve-
rendo et discrete viro Domino Willelmo de Suthill, Con-
canonico et confratri nostro, Salutem et fraternitatem in
Domino caritatis,
Yisis literis vestris, quas die * Lunae ultimo prasterito hora
prima recepimus, super contentis in eisdem deliberavimus
et, communicato consilio fratrum, sentimus potius expedire
Parliamentum expectare quam turbato, ut scribitus, negotio
ad nos remeare. Et ad tollendam hesitationem Domini Can-
cellarii, nolentis fidem transcripto sigillo regio signato ad-
hibere, nisi originalem videantur, intendimus mittere vobis
ipsam originalem citra diem. Ad hoc, carissime frater, vide-
tur nobis quod breve regium, cujus transcriptum nobis per
vos missum vobis remittimus praesentibus interclusum, sit in
multis defectivum, prout in dorso ejusdem transcripti clarius
poterit intueri ; unde ad defectus hujusmodi reparandos,
manus pro viribus extendatis. Hoc tamen scribimus ignari
consuetudinis Curias illius et, idcirco, hoc vestras discretionis
sollicitudini committimus. Quod autem imponitur nobis, prout
scribitis, de perceptione travarum et modo percipiendi satis
satis respondere " Sine, quod eisdem temporibus et modis,
quibus percipi consueverant quadragintos annos et amplius a
tempore, viz. felicis recordationis Adelstani regis, dictarum
travarum donatoris, et non aliter percipimus, nee aliquid
petere intendimus quod sit novum, sed prout fieri consueverat
in juribus ecclesiaa nostras antiquis, hiis praecipue quae ex
munificentiis regiis obtinemus, juvari, protegi et tueri."
Yaleat vestra fraternitas reverenda in Domino Jesu Christo.
Datis Beverlaci xij die mensis Junii mane. A.D. m°ccc°xxvto.
xvii. b. 2. — Capitulum Ecclesias Beati Johannis Beverla-
* This shows no bad post. A letter written in London on Thursday is
delivered at Beverley the following Monday.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK, 69
censis Reverendo et discrete viro Domino W. de Sothill,
concanonico et confratri, Salutem et fraternam in Domino
caritatem.
Yolentes ut negotia, pro quibus in Curia Eegia hactenus
viriliter insudatis et etiam insudastis, favente Domino, suffra- God,and by the
' ' aid of the merits
gantibusque meritis et precibus dicti Sancti, f elicem effectum
obtineant et optatum ; VestraB discretioni reverendas origin- Beveriey to
0 bnng your
alia cartarum, pro quibus scripsistis, in cophino sigillis
Masfistrorum Benedicti de Paston et H. de Carlton, con- a happy conciu-
3 ... sion, we send
canonicorum et confratrum nostrorum, consignata mittimus ma box under
* . _ seal of two
per prassentem procuratorem^ pro his negotiis nostris f eliciter canons the
expediendis, sic post fuerint ostendenda et exhibenda pro charters.
locis et temporibus opportunis, quae si placet salvo f aciatis Jgjs them back
custodiri, nobis in vestro reditu prospero liberanda. Yaleat
vestra fraternitas reverenda in Domino Jesu Christo.
Datis Beverlaci xij Kalendas Julii A.D. m°ccc°xxmo quinto.
Admissio ad Prsecentoriam.
cxiij. 2. — ix Kalendas Julii A.D. supradicto Admissus fuit 1325.
Dominus Bicardus de Grymmeston ad Praecentoriam in eccle- Rd
sia vacantem per mortem Domini * E/icardi de Insula, dudum
Praecentoris ejusdem, in forma consueta :
Et installatus fuit per auctoritatem Capituli per camerarium
et inductus in corporalem possessionem dictaa praecentorias
per eundem et optinuit litteras super inductione in forma
quae sequitur.
Inductio per procuratorem absentis concessa. Grimeston.
cxiij. b. 1. — Universis pateat per praesentes quod Nos 23 June*
Camtulum [etc.! litteras discreti viri Magistri Alani de induction of Ed.
. ... • • • T% • • TVT- ii-i TT of Grimston as
Cotum, reverendi et discreti viri Domini JNiciiolai de Huefat, Precentor on
,. . presentation by
Praspositi ecclesiae antedictae, ipso extra regnum Anglias in
remotis agente, Yicarii Generalis, recepimus continentiae
infrascriptae.
Alanus de Cotum [reverendi etc. as above] habens inter jj^y'.^*'
cetera potestatem beneficia, ad ipsius Domini Prgepositi colla- General of N. of
Huggate. Provost
absent abroad.
* See his admission, p. 113.
Dated Birstal.
BEVEHLEY MINSTER :
tionem spectantia, conferendi, Venerabili Capitulo [etc.],
Salutem in amplexibus Salvatoris.
Quum Pra3centoriam in Ecclesia Beati Johannis supradicta
vacantem et ad praefatam Domini Praepositi collationem
spectantem, Domino Kicardo de Grymmeston, presbitero,
contulimus intuit u caritatis,
Vos requirimus et rogamus quatinus quod vestrum est et
vobis incumbit in hac parfce ulterius exequi velitis, cum
favore, eundem Eicardum, in possessionem corporalem dictae
Praecentoriae cum omnibus juribus et pertinentiis ipsius in-
ducatis. Yalete.
Datis apud Bristal in Holderness xvij Kalendas Julii,
anno gratiae m°cccmoxxvto.
Harum igitur auctoritate et virtute litterarum, dictum
Dominum Eicardum ad dictam Praecentoriam admisimus,
et ipso assignato ad stallum in choro, ac ceteris omnibus
debite et consuete in hac parte plenius observatis, prout
consuetude dictae ecclesiae exigit et requirit, in corporalem
possessionem dictae Prase entoriae, jurium et pertinentiarum
ejusdem, induximus, ut decebat.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum praosentibus est
appensum.
Datis Beverlaci ix Kalendas Julii anno supradicto.
1325.
23 June.
Chapter to Rd
of G-rimston,
Precentor.
Licence of non-
residence for 2
Licentia.
cxiij b. 2. — Capitulum [etc.], Dilecto nobis in Christo
Domino Eicardo de Grymmeston^ Praecentori ejusdem ecclesiae
antedictae, Salutem in Auctore salutis.
Precibus tuis favorabiliter annuentes ut ab ecclesia nostra
praedicta per biennium a die datae praesentium Te valeas
absentare, eo non obstante quod ad personalem et continuam
residentiam sis astrictus ;
Tibi praesentium tenore, quatenus ad nos attinet,
indulgemus.
Proviso quod ecclesia nostra in hiis quae in ea ad tuum
spectant officium interim non fraudetur, et quod in eadem
ecclesia procuratorem habeas ydoneum, qui in omnibus et
singulis te contingentibus respondeat debite loco tui.
Vale.
Datis Beverlaci ix Kalendas Jalii anno supradicto.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 71
Taxatio defectuum. Sequestrum.
cxiiij. — ij Kalendas Julii A.D. supradicto visi fuerunt 1325.
defectus domorum ad Praecentoriam spectantium per Dominos 30 June-
Johannem de Hornse, Thomam de Grymmesby, Thomam de pJS^^.gnsof
Silghstorn et Johannem de Beningholm, necnon et Willel- SSna88essetl
mum de Cranswik, Carpentarium hujus ecclesiae juratum,
•jussu et auctoritate Capituli, visisque et attentis in quo statu
Dominus Ricardus de Insula immediatus predecessor ejusdem
Domini Ricardi de Grymmeston eas recepit, et quid apposuit,
et in quo statu eas dimisit, Taxaverunt dictos defectus ad ThelatePre
centum solidos ; et interpositum fuit sequestrum in bonis dicti g|questraSteddto
Domini Ricardi de Insula infra jurisdictionem Capituli secure payment.
inventis, et praecipue in areragiis sibi debitis in Bederna a
die Paschse usque ad vigiliam Nativitatis S. Johannis
Baptistas.
Per Willelmum de Suthill.
cxiiij. 2. — Yiris venerabilibus et discretis Venerabili Capi- IQOR;
tulo Beverlacensi eorum concanonicus et confrater Willelmus Canonw. of*
de Suthil, Salutem [etc.]. oSSS.to
Cartas in hanaperio consingnatas, quas mihi misistis, salvo Receipt for
recepi, quas penes me retineo. illas si necesse fuerit. ostensurus.
-n . Tf . . As he has a
Bt quia Rex concessit petitionem meam in magna parte, favourable an-
. 1 , ,,,.., swer from King
non intendo eas adnuc alicui demonstrare. wm not show
Et quia habemus nocentes aemulos iuxta Reerem, oportet There are
. J . f enemies near the
me quousque elong*ati fuerint expectare. Aliam petitionem King, for whose
,., g . . rv departure he
contingentem libertatem nostram proposui in parhamento, must wait.
cujus exitum de die in diem habeo exspectare.
Et quia sumptus necessarii mihi desunt. rogo ut mihi to Parliament-
nri . . • /M • Wants money,
usque ad Oentum solidos transmittatis, quia a Curia recedere say £5, for ex-
-, . * • . • <~i . penses and to pay
non potero donee creditoribus fuerit satisfactum. Scientes creditors, with-
, A , . .. . _ . _ out which he
quod praeter cotidianas expensas oportet plura mpendere cannot leave.
Has to pay out
usquequaque, et si negfotium nostrum ad optatum ducatur money every-
nc . • ' • a •• -i-'i where, but if the
ettectum. sicut spero, quicquid apposueritis. reputabitis bene business reaches
i' isii • • ' ,• , - the end he hopes
solutum. Jiit si in receptione prassentium fratres nostri they wm think
„ . , T . T , , it well spent.
praBsentes non fuermt^ vos tamen^ domine Johannes de
Risindon, quod petitur exequi non tardetis.
Conservet vos Altissimus per tempora prospera et
longaeva.
[Letter as to last letter. 1
1325
cxiirj. b. — Litteram Domini Willelmi de Suthill nobis '
missam, et per Dominum Decanum apertam, vidi et intellexi ;
BEVE11LEY MINSTER
Soothill's letter
to us, opened by
the Dean
(Pickering),
I enclose with
the Dean's
vobis remitto cum hac cedula in littera dicti Domini Decani,
unacum ipsa littera interclusa, deliberationi ipsius Domini
Decani in omnibus consentiens, quod hoc videtur melius in
letter ; agreeing hac parte. Valete.
with his view.
Scripturn apud Aghton vii] Idus Juln.
Ipsae Htterae sunt in cophino cum acquietanciis.
1325.
9 July.
Official of Court
of York to all
archdeacons,
&c., in the
diocese.
Assist the
collectors for
Beverley
Minster ;
Giving them
preference over
all others except
York Minster.
Littera Officialis pro qusestu.
cxiij. b. 2. — Omcialis curiae Eborancensis viris venerabilibus
et discretis dominis Archidiaconis et eorum officialibus,
Abbatibus, Prioribus, decanis, rectoribus, vicarus, capellanis
parochialibus et in capellis divina celebrantibus et ceteris
Christi fidelibus tarn exemptis quam non exemptis per Ebora-
censem diocesam et provinciam constitutis, Salutem [etc.] .
Universitatem vestram studiose rogamus monemus et in
Domino attentius exortamur, vobis omnibus et singulis
nichilominus in virtute sanctae obedientiae firmiter injun-
gentes, quatinus quotienscunque procuratores seu vere nuntii
venerabilis Capituli [etc.] ad vos accesserint ad novam
fabricam ejusdem pias fidelium elemosinas petituri et etiam
recepturi, ipsos ad negotium hujusmodi exponendum in
proximis et singulis Capitulis vestris celebrandis post
inspectionem prsesentium, necnon in ecclesiis collegiatis
parochialibus et capellis vobis subditis statim et immediate
post negotium S. Petri Eboracensis, omnibus aliis negotiis
consimilibus et indulgentiis quibuscunque admissis vel in
posterum admittendis interim cessantibus et semotis quousque
negotia ecclesiae Sancti prsedictge ac novae fabricae ejusdem
modo praedicto ad plenum exposuerint et expedierint, ut
tenentur, beningne et sine impedimento quolibet admittatis :
Cunctos presbiteros parochiales vobis subditos monentes et
efficaciter inducentes ut negotium praedictum parochianis suis
diligenter exhortatione pronuntient et exponant, ac fidelium
elemosinas personaliter colligant, ipsasque certis diebus et
locis per vos in locorum Capitulis assignandis, praedictis
procuratoribus vel eorum nuntiis absque diminutione qualibet
fideliter persolvant et restituant elargitas, sub poena excom-
municationis majoris quam contravenientes poterunt noil
inmerito formidare. Proviso quod hujusmodi negotium ex-
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 73
pediatur sicufc decet statim post Evangelium lectum dummodo
in ecclesiis aderit multitude populi Christian!.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum officii nostri prassentibus
est appensum.
Datis apud Ellerton vij Idus Julii A.D. m°cccm° vicesimo
quinto.
Procuratorium gusestoris in Archidiaconatu Notinqham. 1325.
10 July.
cxv. 1. — [Appointment of collector in Arcdeaconry of
Nottingham, J. Claworth, clerk. Dated 6 Idus Julii.]
Sequestrum W. de Suthill.
cxv. 2 . — ix Kalendas Augusti A.D. supradicto, perlato rumore 1325.
de morte Domini Willelmi de Suthill canonici et praebendarii seque2strltioA of
praebendas S. Katerinae in ecclesia Beati Johannis praedicta; loothin! W' °f
Nos Auditor venerabilis Capituli [etc.] omnia bona dicti deceased-
Domini Willelmi infra jurisdictionem dicti Capituli ubilibet
existentia sequestramus, inhibentes sub posna excommunica-
tionis, quam proferimus in hiis scriptis, ne quis ad dicta bona
manus extendat, seu de hiis sine licentia Capituli seu nostra
intromittat, donee testamentum dicti Domini Willelmi si quid
fecerit in forma juris per dictum Capitulum seu per nos
fuerit approbatum, seu aliter de hiis bonis si testamentum
nullum fecit per nos canonice fuerit ordinatum, et obiit
London, xiiij Kalendas Augusti A.D. supradicto.
Acquietancia Stephani de Thorpe.
xvij. b. 3. — Universis pateat per praesentes quod Nos,
Capitulum ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis. audivimus Thorpe, exe-
cutor of the will
compotum Stephani de Thorpe, executoris testament! bonae
memoriae Domini Willelmi de Suthill, dudum canonici ecclesiaa
Beati Johannis praedictas, de xxxta libris, decem et novem
solidis et iiij denariis sterlingorum, sibi per nos traditis et Parliament.
liberatis pro negotiis nostris in Parliamento circiter f estum Balance in hand
Nativitatis Beati Johannis Baptistae A.D. m°ccc°xxvto Lon- £n 9s- °ad- Paid
don celebrate ;
Quo audito, allocatis allocandis, in manibus dicti execu-
toris xi librae ix s. et unus quadrans omnino remanserunt,
quam quidem pecuniam super ipsum compotum nobis solutam,
BEVERLEY MINSTER
et quietus recessit, ab omni honere [sic~\ compotus, quantum
ad praefatam pecuniam finaliter absolutus.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum prgesentibus est
appensum. Datis Beverlaci. [The next leaf has disappeared.]
1325.
24 July.
Rt. of Reston,
Canon, claims
by his proctor
W. of Soothill's
prebend.
Reston.
cxv. b. 1. — ix° Kalendas August! anno supradicto, Domi-
nus Nicholaus de Syghlestorn, procurator Domini Eoberti de
Reston, comparuit in Capitulo coram Auditore ejusdem Capi-
tuli, et praebendam * Domini Willelmi de Sutbill, nomine
Domini sui praedicti acceptavit in forma inf erius anotata.
Rd. of Ferriby
the like.
Ferity.
Eodem die Dominus Johannes de Swyna et Johannes de
Ellerker, procuratores Domini Ricardi de Feriby, hujus ec-
clesiae canonici, comparuerunt in Capitulo coram Auditore
ejusdem Capituli, et prsebendam Domini Willelmi de Suthill,
nomine domini sui praedicti, acceptarunt in forma inferius
anotata.
James of Berk-
hampstead the
like
Berkhamsted.
Eodem die Johannes de Eboraco, clericus, procurator
Domini Jacoby de Berkamsted, comparuit in Capitulo coram
Auditore ejusdem Capituli, et praebendam Domini Willelmi
de Sutl}ill, nomine domini sui prsedicti, acceptavit in forma
inferius anotata.
All in virtue of
Papal provisions.
In Dei nomine, Amen. Ego Nicholaus de Sighlestorn,
procurator Domini Roberti de Reston, canonici ecclesiae
Beati Johannis Beverlacensis, protestor in hiis scriptis me
velle, nomine domini mei prasdicti, praebendam Beatae
Katerinae Virginis in ecclesia praedicta per mortem Domini
Willelmi de Suthill quondam praebendarii prasbendae prae-
dictae acceptare, si eidem domino meo virtute gratiae per
sanctissimurn in Christo patreni et dominnm, Dominum
Johannem divina providentia papam xxij, et processus super
* This is a fine example of "where the carcase is, there the (clerical) eagles
are gathered together."
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 75
hoc [h]abiti et secuti, et nulli alii de jure debeantur, et
ulterius facere in hac parte quod domino meo videro
expedire.
Inductio. Nassington.
cxv. b. 4. — Septimo Kalendas Augusti A.D. supradicto ad- 1325.
missus fuit Magister Rogerus de Nassington ad praebendam
suam in forma consueta, et habuit litteras de Inductione in
forma subsequente.
Northburgh in
€ accordance with
Universis pateat per praesentes quod nos Capitulum [etc.]
litteras venerabilis in Christo patris et domini Domini
Willelmi Dei gratia [etc.] recepimus in haec verba :
Willelmus, permissione divina [etc.], Capitulo [etc.]. letter of Abp.,
Quum canonicatum et praebendam altaris Beati Martini
. oiTi--r>i • i\- • in exchange for
m ecclesia nostra b. Jonanms ±>everlacensis nostrae Dioccesis, church of
quos ultimo optinuit Magister Robertus de Northburgh in fortknire.
eadem ad nostram collationem spectantes, et causa permuta-
sionis cum ecclesia de Houghton, diocesis Lincolniensis,
canonice factae vacantes, Magistro Rogero de Nassington, ex
causa permutationis hujusmodi contulimus intuitu caritatis ;
Vobis mandamus quatinus eundem Magistrum Rogerum,
seu procuratorem suum nomine ejus, in corporalem posses-
sion em ipsorum canonicatus et praebendaB inducatis seu
induci faciatis : Exequentes circa eum in hac parte ulterius
luod est vestrum. Valete.
Datis in manerio nostro juxta Westmonasterium xvj Dated at
Kalendas Augusti A.D. m0cccmo xxmo vto.
Hujus igitur auctoritate mandati, dictum Magistrum
Roger um de Nassington in personis Johannis Holby,
Nicholai de Sighlestorn, vicarii ecclesiae Beatas MariaB Bever-
lacensis, presbiterorum, et Johannis de Everwyk de Beverlaco,
clerici, procuratorum suorum, ad dictos canonicatum et
praebendam admisimus; et ipsum, assignato eidem stallo in
choro et loco in capitulo, ac ceteris omnibus qua3 requiruntur
in hac parte plenius observatis, in possessionem dictorum
canonicatus et praebendae secundum vim formam et effectum
dicti mandati, in personis dictorum procuratorum induci
fecimus corporalem.
BEVEEXEY MINSTETC I
1325.
2 Nov.
Appointment of
Canon Dennis
Avenel as proc-
tor for Parlia-
ment in London
on octave of
S. Martin.
1325.
22 Nov.
25 Feb.
Abp. W. Melton
to Canon Dennis
Avenel, Vicar-
General in his
absence,
directing him to
inquire by trust-
worthy men of
Beverley, of the
repute of Jn. of
Blsindpnjunr.,
chaplain, in the
Abp's prison for
theft : and if
found innocent,
put him to pur-
gation in due
form and release
him from prison.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum praesentibus est
appensum.
Datis Beverlaci vij Kalendas August! anno supradicto.
[Proctors for Parliament.]
ccxliiij. — Die animarum A.D. supradicto factum fuit pro-
curatorium Magistro Dionisio Avenel pro procuratoribus
eligendis et ad parliamentum London in Octavis S. Martini
A.D. supradicto celebrandum.
Conversatio.
[Testimonial in favour of R. de Hardynge of Wytheton,
chaplain. ]
Littera pro purgatione clerici.
ccxliiij. b. 1. — Willelmus, permissione divina [etc.], Dilecto
filio Magistro Dionisio Avenel, nobis extra nostram diocoesem
agentibus nostro Vicario General!, Salutem [etc ] .
De vestris fidelitate et industria plenius confidentes, ad
inquirendum per viros Beverlacenses fidedingniores ad hoc in
sufficient! numero evocandos, de fama et opinione Domini
Johannis de Kisindon, minoris, capellani, super crimine furti
notati, ut dicitur, ac etiam irretiti et ea ratione carceris
nostri custodies mancipati, et in eo eventu si per dictorum
testimonium virorum bonas famae et oppinionis, ac in nullo
culpabilis criminis antedicti inventus fuerit, bona fide ad
indicendum sibi purgationem canonicam super crimine ante-
dicto, praemissa tamen proclamatione, ac juris ordine, qui
circa hujusmodi processum requiritur, in omnibus observato,
et ad recipiendum purgationem suam, si super dicto crimine
se purgare voluerit quota manu fidedingnorum secundum
Deum et justitiam vobis videbitur expedire ;
Et si se ab hujusmodi crimine sibi imposito legitime pur-
gaverit, suamque innocentiam sic declaraverit manifestam,
ad liberandum dictum Dominum Johannem a dicta carcerali
custodia, qua asseritur detineri, ac omnia alia et singula
faciendum quas in praemissis et circa ea fuerint nocessaria,
aut etiam oportuna ;
Vobis vices nostras committimus cum cohertionis canonicae
potestate : Mandantes quatinus de omni eo quod feceritis in
praemissis debite reddatis ac plenius certiores tempore opor-
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 77
tuno per litteras vestras patentes, Harum seriem continentes.
Valete.
Datis in Hospitio nostro juxta [MS. stained] v Kalendas
Martii anno gratias m°cccmo xvto, et pontificatus nostri viij°.
ccxliiij. b. 2. — . . . praesentes quod Dominus Thomas de 1326.
Syglesthorn, vicarius ecclesias [etc,] , ......... thorp
snspectam habuisse familiaritatem, ac eandem carnaliter ....
, ...... vocebatur coram nobis venerabilis Capituli [etc] stained-],
L J himself and
. . , . . crimine asseruit se immunem restored to good
fame.
in dictam sibi purgationem , .......... fecit, propter
quod ipsum bonae famae suas quatenus ad nos .......
....... testimonium sigillum nostri officii praesentibus
est appenSUm ............ A.D. m°CCCmo XXmo VJto. The same sum-
£ . moiled for mis-
............ Syerhlestorn vocatur super fornica- behaviour with
i ii -, t rwn Albredaof
tione cum Albreda de Thorp ....... Thorpe.
Conversatio. Bilston.
Pridie Nonas Junii concessa fuit una littera conversationis 1326
Domino Willelmo de Walton ; et prasstitit juramentum quod 4 June.
contra capitulum nunquam impetraret.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
ccxl. — Missi fuerunt ad ordines xiiij Kalendas Octobris, 1326.
clerici infrascripti, videlicet, Johannes Rayns, Robertus de g
Barton ad ordinem subdiaconatus ; Willelmus de Leven,
Willelmus de Keteby, Thomas de Norton ..........
...... de Heklington ad ordinem diaconatus; Robertus
[Alington] ............. de Baynton, Johannes de
Anslagby ad ordinem praesbiteratus A.D. m°cccmo xxvjto.
Anno Domini millesimo cccxvlj0.
ccxlv. — xiiij Kalendas Octobris A.D. supradicto factum fuit 18 ^ t
Procuratorium Johannis de Stork per biennium post datam
prassentium duraturum.
Cave.
x° Kalendas Januarii A.D. m°cccmoxxvjto Dominus Johannes 1326.
de Cave, capellanus, optinuit litteras testimoniales de con-
versatione sua sub data vjto Idus Martii A.D. m°cccmoxxij°.
J. of Cave,
chaplain.
78
BEYERLEY MINSTEE,
Anno Domini millesimo cccxxvij0. Clerici missi ad or dines.
1327.
26 March.
Orders
3 sub-deacons.
1 deacon. .
1 priest.
1327.
4 June.
Venerabili [etc.]
Eobertus de Brunton
Willelmus de Allerton
Johannes Spynk
Johannes Kayns
Johannes de Multhorp
ad ordinem subdiaconatus.
„ diaconatus.
„ presbiteratus.
Datis Beverlaci vij Kalendas Aprilis A.D. supradicto.
Clerici missi ad or dines.
Thomas de Benyngholm
Willeimus de Harpham
Willelmus de Tykton
Johannes de Grayngham
Willelmus de G-aunsted |
Johannes Bynder J
Dominus Hugo de Otringham
ad ordinem subdiaconatus.
diaconatus.
presbiteratus.
Datis Beverlaci ij° Nonas Junii A.D. m° cccmo xxv°ij(
1327.
30 July.
Appointment of
Dennis Avenel
as Proctor for
Chapter to meet
at York to elect
Proctors for
Treaty or Council
at Lincoln to be
held by Abps.
W. Melton of
York and Walter
Reynolds of Can-
terbury, and J.
Hotham, Bp. of
Ely. chancellor,
on 17 August.
Procuratorium pro procuratore eligendo.
Venerandae discretionis viro Domino Officiali curiao Ebora-
censis vel ejus commissario generali, Capitulum [etc.] .
Vestrae discretioni significamus reverendae quod Nos ad
compareiidum coram vobis in majori ecclesia Eboracensi die
Lunae proxima post instans festum S. Petri ad vincula ad
eligendum et ordinandum duos procuratores idoneos ad
tractatum sive concilium apud Lincolniam die Lunae proxima
post instans festum Assumptionis Beatas Marias per vener-
abiles patres Dominos Willelmum, Dei gratia [etc.] Walterum
Dei gratia Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum et Johannem
Eliensenx, Domini nostri Eegis Angliae Caiicellarii, vice et
nomine dicti Domini Regis illustris, favente Domino, cele-
brandum nomine totius cleri Eboracensis diocoesis destin-
andos ad tractandum cum aliis praslatis, magnatibus et
proceribus et procuratoribus existentibus tune iisdem, super
negotiis cum eodem tractatu sive concilio pertractandis, et ad
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 79
consentiendum hiis, quae ibidem tune contigerit de communi
consilio ordinari.
Dilectum nobis [etc. as before].
Datis Beverlaci tertio Kalendas Augusti A.D. m0occmoxxvij°.
1327
ccxlv. 5. — Venerandae [etc. as in last to Eboracensi] die 27Aug!
Procuratorium pro procurators eligendo.
Venerandae [etc. as in last to Ebor
Yeneris proxima ante instans festum Nativitatis Beatae
Marias Yirginis ad eligendum et ordinanduin duos pro- ^dect poctors
curatores idoneos ad instans Parliamentum apud Lincolniam ftt Lincoln on
in crastino Exaltationis Sanctae Crucis, favente divina
dementia, celebrandum [etc. as in last],
Datis Beverlaci vjto Kalendas Septembris A.D. m0ooc*°xsvijmo.
Pro qusestu Lincolniensis diocoesis.
ccxlv. b. 1. — xvi Kalendas Octobris A.D. supradicto, scriptum 1327.
fuit Episcopo Lincolniensi pro Ricardo filio Laurentii Mone- Cfaa ^J^
chaunt, quaestore hujus ecclesiae in civitate et diocoesi Lin- ^ncoinon
colniensi, et in forma qua supra in quinto folio praecedente, collection for
exceptis hiis verbis infrascriptis " pro tempore quo omcium
in eisdem vestris civitate et diocoesi exercuerit duraturis."
Procuratorium pro qucestu in civitate et diocoesi Eboracensi,
Dunolmensi et Carliolensi.
ccxlv. b. 2. — Universis sanctas matris ecclesise filiis pateat 1327
per prassentes quod Nos Capitulum [etc.] ad petendum [etc.] is sept.
1 • 1, • J £ ll ' 1 • • n i T Appointment
elemosmas nobis ad novae fabricae ecclesiae nostraa pia fidehum J. of Birstai and
n . . n . T -, . . n . J. of Stock,
devotione datas et dandas, assignatas et assignandas in clerks, burgesses
civitate et dioccesi Eboracensi, Dunolmensi et Carlionensi, coiiectorseforS
iiecnon ad impetrandum litteras a venerabili in Christo patre rinceaf York.
et domino, Domino Willelmo Dei gratia [etc.] et ab aliis
venerabilibus patribus Dei gratia Dunolmensi et Carlionensi
ceterisque preelatis ac ordinariis quibuscunque locurum prae-
dictorum, quorum interest in hac parte, et ad revocandum
[etc. as before],
Dilectos nobis in Christo Johannem de Bristoll et Johannem
de Stork, clericos, burgenses Beverlaci [etc.] .
Datis Beverlaci xiiij Kalendas Octobris A.D. millesimo
cccmoxxvijmo.
BEVERLEY MINSTER
[1327.]
Undated.
Execution
having issued
against Kt. of
Seton, W. of
Cranswick, and
Emma of Grans-
wick, burgesses
of Beverley, to
bring the body
of Mrs. Ellen of
Passemer lately
deceased in the
said Robert's
house (which
against the will
of the Chapter
had been taken
to the Friars
Preachers'
church), to be
buried in the
Minster, or to
make satisfac-
tion for this
crime.
Evidence
was given that
deceased wished
to be buried in
Friars' Church,
where her first
husband lay.
But they offered
to account for
offerings and
candles to the
Minster, viz. :
.offerings 3s. 6d.
and half the
candles, viz., 17.
Order to pay
accordingly.
Passemer.
ccxlv. b. 2. — Memorandum quod cum facta fuit executio
contra Eobertum de Seton, Willelmum de Crancewyk, et
Emmam de Crancewyk, burgenses Beverlaci, quod corpus
Dominae Elenae de Passemer nuper defunctse in domo dicti
Eoberti ad eorum procurationem in ecclesia fratrum Prse-
dicatorum, Beverlacensis praeter et contra voluntatem
Capituli [etc.! et ministrorum ejusdem traditum sepulturae
ad ecclesiam istam deferrent tumulandum, in qua vel in
cujus cimiterio debuit de jure et antiqua consuetudine
sepeliri, vel ecclesise de hujusmodi facinore satisfacere com-
petenter ;
Idem Eobertus nepos et heres dictae defunctae coram
Magistro Alano de Cotom et Domino Johanne de Eisindon,
tune Auditore Capituli et Camerario, ad hoc Commissariis
specialiter deputatis, die S. Mathaei apostoli A.D. supradicto
personaliter comparuit, asserens dictam defunctam in ecclesia
dictorum fratrum, ubi primus vir suus sepelitur, elegisse
sepulturam, et super hoc duos testes produxit, videlicet,
Willelmum de Crancewyk et Emmam sororem suam, qui
sufficienter deposuerunt, quod voluntas dictse defunctae
semper fuit ut in dicta ecclesia traderetur ecclesiasticas
sepulturae, et hoc satis expressit die Jovis proxima ante
mortem suam in ipsorum praesentia et multorum aliorum.
Nichilominus dictus Eobertus optulit se paratum satisfacere
ecclesiae, tarn de oblationibus quam de aereis, videlicet, de
oblationibus usque ad summam oblationum in dicta ecclesia
fratrum praedicatorum obvenientium pro eadem, videlicet,
iij. s. vj. d. o., et de niedietate cereorum, videlicet xvij, prout
inter ipsum et Willelmum filium Eliae, procuratorem Sacristaa,
con vent urn fuit.
In quibus per ipsos Magistrum Alanum et Dominum
Johannem solvendis extitit finaliter condempnatus.
1327.
12 Oct.
Procuratorium ad tractandum super subsidio petito a Bege.
ccxlvj. — Yenerabili [etc. Appointment of Canon Dennis
Avenel and Precentor Eichard of Grimston, proctors for
levying subsidy asked for by the King from clergy in
Parliament at Lincoln.]
Datis Beverlaci vj Idus Octobris.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 81
Procuratorium. Alberwyk.
ccxlvj. 2. — Pateat universis per praesentes quod Nos Willel-
mus de Alberwyk, Prsecentor ecclesiae cathedralis Ebora- w.
censis dilectum nobis in Christo Willelmum Foul, nostrum York, appoints
. . „ . "Wm. Foul,
verum et legitimum recimus et coiistituimus procuratorem : proctor, to coi-
.,,. . ' lect farms of
Dantes eidem plenam et general em potestatem ac mandatum Gartonand
.,„ -in .TT^I T i Beverley belong-
speciale urmas de Crarton et de ISeverlaco, praebendaB nostrae ing to MS pre-
f-'\ •' •*%' ' t • T • bend at Beverley.
eccicsias JoeverJacensis spectantes, avenas, corrodium, et omnia
alia qu8B ad eandem prasbendam ubilibet pertinent petendi,
exigendi, colligendi,, recipiendi et de receptis acquietancias,
faciendi, contra quoscunque obnoxios in hac parte agendi,
defender) di, excipiendi, replicandi, ponendi, positionibus re-
spondendi, juramentum de calumpnia et de veritate dicenda
et quodlibet aliud genus liciti sacramenti in animam nostram
praestandi; status nostri [etc., in usual form].
Datis Eboraci ij Idus Octobris, anno gratiae millesimo
cccmoxxvijmo.
Otringham.
ccxlvj. 3. — Nono Kalendas Januarii A.D. supradicto Domi- 1327.
nus Hugo de Otringham, vicarius [etc.] vocatus super Hugh of ottrmg-
-.,- T r\L • ^ • ham, vicar, sum-
criraine mcestus cum Margareta de Otrmgliam, consangumea mpned for incest
., .fo . with his cousin
sua,, comparuit . . . . et purgat se cum vjta manu vicariorum Margaret of
-, , Ottringham,
et SacerdOtum. purges himself
by oaths of 6
vicars priests.
Universis pateat per praesentes quod cam Dominus Hugo Letters Patent
de Otringham vicarius [etc.] coram nobis Auditore venera- heilfrSred to
bilis Capituli [etc.], fama ut dicebatur super hoc laborante, s°ot
super crimine incestus cuin Margareta de Otringham, consan-
guinea sua, ad certum diem fuisset legitime evocatus ; Idem
Dominus Hugo sufficienter et legitime comparuit, de hujus-
modi crimine asserens se immunem, purgationemque suam
offerens cum effectu, quam sibi indictam humiliter admisit,
et canonice earn fecit ; propter quod ipsum bonas famaB suae
quantum ad nos attinet restituimus per decretum.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum officii nostri praesentibus
est appensum.
Datis Beverlacii Nonas Januarii A.D. m°cccmoxxvij .
VOL. n. G
82
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
132£.
21 Jan.
Appointment of
Canon D.
Avenel. and Pre-
centor Rd. of
Griniston, proc-
tors, to elect
proctors for
Parliament.
Procuratorium pro procurator e eligendo.
ccxlvj. b. 1. — xij Kalendas Februarii A. D. supradicto factum
fuit procuratorium Magistro Dyonisio Avenell, canonico hujus
ecclesiae, et Domino Ricardo de Grimston Prsecentori ejusdem
ad comparen dum coram Domino officiali Curise Eboracensis
vel ejus commissario generaii in majori Ecclesia Eboracensi
ad eligeiidum duos procuratores nomine totius cleri Ebora-
censis diocoesis destinandos ad Parliamentum apud Eboracum
die Dominica proxima post instans festum Purificationis
B. M. V.
132f.
16 March.
Orders.
1 sub-deacon.
4 deaeons.
1 priest.
Clerici missi ad or dines.
ccxlvj. b. 2. — xvij Kalendas Aprilis A.D. millesimo cccmoxxvij
tales missi fuerunt ad ordines, viz. :
Robertus de Hoden, ad ordinem subdiaconatus.
Thomas de Benyngholm
Willelmus de Tykton
Johannes de G-ayngham
Willelmus de Alverton
Johannes Raynes
ad ordinem diaconatus.
presbiteratus.
Procuratorium pro procuratore eligendo.
1328. ccxlvrj. b. 3. — vj Idus Aprilis [as in ccxlvj. b. 1, but to
Appointment of Avenel only die Mercurii proxima post dominicam qua can-
tatur Quasimodo genitis, for Parliament apud Northampton
a Pascha in tres septimanas] .
Proctor.
1328.
21 April.
Littera conversationis.
ccxlvj. b. 4. — [Testimonial in favour of J. Raynes, of
Thurlesthorp, priest, in ministerio clerici in ecclesia nostra
diutius conversatus.]
1328.
21 May.
Acquietancia expensarum.
ccxlvj. b. 5. — [Receipt to N. of Huggate, as on p. 465, for
25s. 7*.]
CHAPTER A.CT BOOK.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
ccxlvj. b. 6. — vij Kalendas Junii, viz., in Ebdomada Pente-
costes AD. m°cccni° xxviij tales missi fuerunt ad ordines, viz. :
Johannes de Helsham "|
Robertus de Brysham
Philippus de Kilnese I
Johannes de Leven
Wm. de Harpham de Beverley
Wm. de Clay de Hedon
J. Spink de Beverley
J. de Eosse
J. Wynder de Beverley
Thomas de Verlai
Memorandum quod J. de Halsham, R. de Brigham, J. de
Kilnese et W. de Clay missi fuerunt ex gratia Magistri
Dyonisii Avenel ante tempus suum per iij menses.
Procuratorium pro procuratore eligendo.
[As in No. 1 above, but for Mr. Robert de Pykering die
Martis in crastino S. Jacobi Apostoli, and for Parliament at
York die Dominica le proxima post festum S. Jacobi.]
ad ordinem subdiaconatus.
diaconatus
presbiteratus.
A.D.
millesimo cccxxviij.
ccxlvij. 1. — Omnibus has litteras visuris vel audituris Capi-
tulum [etc.] .
Noveritis nos attornasse, loco nostro posuisse et constituisse
dilectum nostrum Robertum de Swyna Ballivum nostrum
ad petendum curiam nostram de omnibus et singulis tenen-
tibus nostris et ad calumpniandum libertates ecclesiae nostrse
Beverlacensis, coram quibuscunque Justiciariis de Banco
Domini Regis Angliae illustris itinerantibus assignatis, et
omnibus aliis Justiciariis et judicibus quibuscunque et ubicun-
que et quotienscunque sumonitis, attachiati^implacitati, arestati
seu quovis modo detenti fuerint : Et ad assignandum partibus
et aliis quibuscunque, qui versus eos loqui voluerint, tarn pro
eisdem quam pro libertate nostra antiquitus probata et appro-
bata salvanda, et ad dandum eisdem diem in Curia nostra
Beverlacensi in Beverlaco : necnon ad faciendum eisdem
ibidem justitias complementum ; Ratum habituros et firmum
quicquid idem Robertus, Ballivus noster, nomine nostro in
prasmissis duxerit faciendum.
1328.
26 May.
1328.
21 July.
1328.
5 June.
Letters Patent
of Chapter.
Appointing Rt.
of Swine, their
bailiff, attorney
to claim juris-
diction over all
tenants and to
claim liberties of
the Church
before Judges of
King's Bench
and in Eyre ;
and to hold
o4 BEVERLEY MINSTER :
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum commune ad
citationes et petitiones faciendas praesentibus est appensum.
Datis Beverlaci vto die mensis Junii A.D. m°cccmoxxviij, et
regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi secundo.
1328.
17 June.
Testimonial.
[Conversatio.~]
ccxlvij. 2. — xv Kalendas Julii A.D. supradicto facta fuit
littera de conversatione Domini Thomae de Norton presbiteri
sub forma litterae factae Domino Johanni Raynes, ufc patet
in folio prascedente.
1328.
27 July.
Appointment of
Rt. of Stork and
Rt. of Haycroft,
as collectors for
new fabric in
Lincoln and
Carlisle till
Michaelmas
1331:
in same form as
on 2nd preceding
leaf.
1328.
26 Aug.
1328.
31 Aug.
[Procuratorium pro qudestuJ\
vj Kalendas Augusti A.D. supradicto factum fuit quoddam
procuratorium Roberto de Stork et Roberto de Haycroft pro
quaestu novge fabricae hujus ecclesias exercendo in civitate
et diocesi Lincolniensi et Carliolensi a data prasdicti usque
ad festum S. Michaelis in A.D. millesimo tricesimo primo tanto
mo do duraturum.
Et scriptum fuit sub eadem data et sub forma procuratorii
facti Johanni de Bristollia et Johanni de Stork, ut patet in
secundo folio praecedenti.
Procuratorium pro qusestu.
vij Kalendas Septembris [etc. as in last but to Elias of
Lumby in Archdeaconry of Nottingham].
Eodein die [etc. as in last for Archdeaconry of York].
ij Kalendas Septembris [etc. as in last but to John of
Stork for Archdeaconries of East Riding and Cleveland to
Michaelmas 1328].
1328.
6 Sept.
Domino Episcopo Lincolniensi, Decano et Capitulo Lincoln,
Domino Archidiacono Northampton pro qusestoribus in
civitate et diocoesi Lincoln.
Memorandum quod scriptum fuit Domino Episcopo Lin-
colniensi, Dominis Decano et Capitulo Lincolniensibus, et
Domino Archidiacono Northampton, pro quasstu in civitate
et Diocese Lincolniensibus per dictum Ricardum exercendo,
sub dato viij Idus Septembris A.D. m°cccmoxxviij, in forma in
vjto folio praecedente notata, Domino Episcopo Lincolniensi,
CHAPTER ACT BOOK.
85
et Dominis Decano et Capitulo Lincolniensibus pro qugestu
in civitate et diocoese Lincolniensibus praedictis, exceptis
hiis verbis, per biennium duraturis ; loco quorum ponuntur
ista verba, videlicet, per tempus quo dictum procurator ium
suum duraverit duraturum.
Procuratorium pro qucestu in Archidiaconatu Richemundiensi.
ccxlvij. b. 1. — Memorandum [etc. as in ccxlvij. but for
J. of Birstal for Archdeaconry of Richmond to Michaelmas
1329].
Clerici missi ad ordines.
1328.
16 Sept.
ad ordinem acolitatus.
subdiaconatus.
diaconatus.
presbiteratus.
21 Sept.
Orders.
2 acolytes.
2 sub deacons.
3 deacons.
6 priests.
ccxlvij. b. 2. — xj Kalendas Octobris tales clerici missi 1328.
fuerunt ad ordines ; videlicet,
Petrus de Hedon
Eicardus de Killom
Ricardus de Geytington*
Willelmus de Sygleston
Thomas de Hugate
Robertus de Hedon*
Willelmus de Esington
Robertus de Barton
Thomas de Benyngholm* „ „
Willelmus de Tykton*
Johannes de Gaynghani* „ ,,
Willelmus de Clay „ ,,
Willelmus de Leven „ „
Memorandum quod Ricardus [etc. those marked *] missi
fuerunt, ex gratia Magistri D. Avenell ante tempus suum.
1328.
Procuratorium pro procuratore eligendo.
ccxlvij. b. 3.- vj Nonas Octobris [etc.] factum fuit procura-
torium Domino Nicholao de Hugate, canonico hujus ecclesias,
ad comparendum coram Domino Officiali Curiae Eboracensis,
vel ejus commissario generali in majori ecclesia Eboracensi
die Yeneris in crastino Synodi Eboraoensis ; viz. die proximo jjament at saiis-
post festum Sanctae Fidis Yirginis ad eligendum duos pro-
curatores nomine totius cleri Eboracensis diocoesis destinandos
ad Parliamentum apud Novam Saresbiriam die Dominica
proxima post quindenam S. Michaelis celebrandum.
86
BEVERLEY M]
1328.
2 Nov.
Testimonial.
Conversatio.
ccxlvij. b. 4. —Memorandum, quod tertio Nonas Novembris
A.D. supradicto facta fuit quaedam littera de coiiversatione
Domini Willelmi de Otringham in forma litteras factae Domino
Thomas de Siglesthorn, ut patet in xmo folio praecedenti.
132*.
16 March.
Orders.
2 acolytes.'
3 sub-deacons.
2 deacons.
3 priests.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
ccxlvij. b. 5. — xvij Kalendas Aprilis, viz. Jovis in prima
septimana Quadragesimas A.D. supradicto tales clerici fuerunt
missi ad ordines; videlicet, Robertus de Swyna, Ricardus
Leger ad ordinem acolitatus ; Robertus de Setrington,
Ricardus de Killom, Hugo de Humbleton de Beverlaco ad
ordinem subdiaconatus ; Ricardus de Gaytington, Philippus
de Kilnesse ad ordinem diaconatus ; Willelmus de Allerton,
Willelmus de Syglestorn et Thomas de Hugate ad ordinem
presbiteratus.
Memorandum quod Robertus de Setrington et Ricardus de
Killom et Philippus de Kilnesse missi fuerunt ex gratia
Magistri Dyonisii Avenell ante tempus suum.
Conversatio.
1328. ccxlvij. b. 6. — [Testimonial in favour of Wm of Allerton,
priest, " in ministerio clerici in ecclesia nostra diutius
conversatus."]
22 March.
1329.
31 March.
Certificate that
J . Binder, chap-
lain of S. Kathe-
rine's chantry,
defamed for mis-
behaviour with
Marjory of Leake,
when sub-
deacon has
undergone
canonical correc-
tion.
Purgatio.
ccxlvij. b. 7. — Pateat universis per prgeseiites, quod Nos,
Auditor venerabilis Capituli [etc.], de Domino Johanne
Bynder, Capellano cantariae altaris S. Katerinee Virginis in
ecclesia praedicta, super crimine fornicationis cum Marjoria
de Lek, in gradu subdiaconi tune temporis constituto
infamato, ij° Kalendas Martii A.D. m°cccmoxxvjto correctionem
canonicam fecimus, ut decebat.
In cujus rei, etc. Datis Beverlaci ij Kalendas Aprilis A.D.
xxix110.
CHAPTEB ACT BOOK.
87
A.D. millesimo cccmo vicesimo nono.
Acta in convocations
xviij. — Celebrata die Mercurii, videlicet, decimo Kalendas
Junii A.D. millesimo cccmo vicesimo nono.
In primis, Tractatum fuit super responsionibus ad articulos
infrascriptos, videlicet ;
Ista sunt gravamina, de qiiibus omnes Hectares * decanatus de Herthill
unive.rsaliter conqueruntur.
1329,
23 May.
Convocation.
Articles of com-
plaint of the
Rectors of the
deanery of Hert-
hill, and An-
swers.
In primis, quod laici sub colore perceptionis travarum ad i. The laity
-. .-. . . , . -p, . . under colour of
usum venerabilum virorum canomcorum ecclesiee Beati taking thraves
Johannis Beverlacensis, ut dicitur, perceptarum, ad decimas
suas inanus sacrilegas apponunt, eas nequiter et furtive sur-
ripiendo et etiam asportando, dictis Rectoribus insciis penitus
et ignaris.
Respondetur. quod non erat de voluntate vel intentione Answer: if
\ done, it is with'
Canonicorum quod laici nequiter et furtive surripiant et out the win or
* r knowledge of the
asportant aliquid Rectorum; sed duntaxat ut colligant chapter.
travas ecclesise Beverlacensi debitas, et si intelligant dicti
rectores quod aliter fiat, utantur remedio communi, nee
Canonicis quicquam infrmgaiit.
Item, quod procuratores dictorum Canonicorum et einp-
tores dictarum trabarum, conspiratione habita, cum quibus-
dam parochianis quamcumque modicam terram colentibus,
etiam unam bovatam terrse vel minus, exigunt trabas integras
et extorquent, contra debitum et justitiam et intentionem
donatoris hujusmodi trabarum.
Respondetur eidem, non est de pretentione vel voluntate
Canonicorum vel scientia eorundem, quod eorum procuratores
seu emptores trabarum habeant aliquam conspirationem cum
parochianis modicam terram colentibus vel magnam, ut hujus-
modi prsetextu plus vel minus de trabis exigant plus quam
justum et solitum est, sed quod dumtaxat exigant pro qua-
lib et caruca ad culturam et vomerem quatuor trabas.
* In this struggle of clerical kites and crows one cannot but sympathise with
the mother church, which was presumably first in possession, especially as the
agitation of the rectors seems to have been started by absentee Italian Papal
nominees.
2. The agents
and purchasers
of thraves con-
spire with cer-
tain parishioners
to levy whole
thraves even on
the tenants of
one ox-gang or
less, against
right and the
donor's in-
tention.
Answer. If done
it is without
wish or know-
ledge of the
Canons. All
they ask is 4
thraves for each
plough for agri-
culture and
plough-share.
88
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
3. The agents
and purchasers
aforesaid
wickedly extort
a whole thrave
for each plough,
though only
ploughing for 9
days at different
times in the
whole year.
Answer : 4
thraves are ex-
acted for each
plough ; and if
tithes are not
taken it is no
fault of the
Canons.
3. Where a
tenant lias land
in several
parishes and
works all with one
plough whole
thraves are
exacted for each.
Answer : Not so.
Item, quod procuratores praedicti et emptores de qualibet
caruca arante per novem dies, diversis vicibus per annum,
trabas integras nequiter exigunt et extorquent, et sic con-
tingit quod Rectores nil recipiunt de decimis supradictis.
Dicitur, quod de qualibet caruca ad culturam et vomerem
arante per novem dies trabge exiguntur et non aliter, et quod
inseritur in articulo de nulla perceptione decimarum non est
culpa canonicorum.
Item, quod quidam parochiani eorumdem habentes unam
bovatam vel duas, in una parochia et tantum vel minus in
alia, et colunt totum per unam carucam, dicti procuratores et
emptores integras trabas pro singulis parochiis extorquent.
Dicitur, quod ubi in diversis parochiis colunt terram per
unam dumtaxat carucam, tantummodo pro ilia caruca trabae
exiguntur, et non pro pluribus sive singulis parochiis.
> contingit quod duo praebendarii percipiunt trabas in
parochia. procuratores eorumdem sive emptores pro
' *
5. Where two
prebendaries take
thraves in one Una
parish, each takes .
whole thraves smgulis prebendis de una caruca integras trabas extorquent.
from each plough.
Answer : Not
true.
6. Whereas the
prebendaries used
to take from each
plough one
thrave of wheat,
another of barley,
and two of oats,
they now try to
take two of
wheat and two
of barley, and so
the farmers have
to buy thraves
to avoid greater
evil.
Answer : They
only takes traves
as anciently.
7. Rectors
having the cure
of souls of their
parishioners, who
detain tithes
because of the
taking of thraves
as afoiesaid,
when they wish
to get them
punished by the
ordinary, the
Chapter wickedly
defends them,
and so the
parishioners
when dying
confess their
Respondetur, quod non continet veritatem.
Item, ubi dicti prebendarii non consueverunt recipere de
caruca nisi unam trabam de frumento et aliam de ordeo et
duas de avena ; jam de novo nituntur exigere et extorquere
medietatem de frumento et aliam medietatem de ordeo, et
sic emptores propter importunitatem dictorum trabas omen-
tium hujusmodi trabas emere compelluntur ad evitationem
majoris mali et consumptionis decimarum suarum.
Respondetur, quod exigunt trabas sicut ab antiquo f ecerunt
et non aliter, nihil novitatis faciendo.
Item, quod Rectores curam animarum parochianorum suo-
rum habentes, sub colore perceptionis hujusmodi trabarum,
decimas suas indebite asportantium, volentes eisdem coram
ordinario pro hujusmodi excessibus canonice puniri, ad fal-
sam et subdolam suggestionem. eorumdem Capitulo ecclesiaB
Beati Johannis prasdicti multitotiens factam; ne debite corri-
gantur per dictam ecclesiam nequiter defenduntur, ipsique
parochiani in extremis laborantes ipsos furtum in praemissis
commisisse multitotiens sunt confessi et sic, sine satisfactione
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 89
congrua multitotiens moriuntur, in animarum suarum peri- theft and die
c1 _ without satis-
Culum manif estum. faction made, to
their souls' peril.
Respondetur, quod nullos injuste scienter defendunt, et si Answer. The
parochiani in extremis laborantes confiteantur se furtum
commisisse, ad satisfaciendum inducant confitientes, et si non
habeant unde, remittant et absolvant. the B.ectorfated'
should get them
to make restitu-
Item, ubi dicti praebendarii trabas suas non percipiunt nisi
de decimis, dosque ecclesias indecimabilis existat, ab eadem ™JJJJ8> absolve
et pro eadem trabas suas a dictis Eectoribus contra justitiam 8 ThePre.
pvf nvn n pn f bendaries take
extorquent. thraves from the
Respondetur, quod si dos ecclesiae sit indecimabilis vel non, the chSes0f
iiichil ad canonicos, nihilominus tameii de caruca arante n not
dotem trabas exiguntur, et sic fieri consuevit ab antiquo. Answer : whether
the endowment
is titheable or
Item, ad falsam suggestionem hujusmodi bro^gorum pras-
dictas trabas de secunda, tertia, vel quarta manu ementium
impetrantur, litterse monitoriae sub diversis poenis et censuris demaSIdSfrom
ecclesiasticis gravissimis ad compellendum et excommunican- JrY,6™ Ith2nd'
dum dictos Rectores et parochianos suos sine causae cogni- monitions toned
. • • , , f • , without trial of
tione, ipsos non citatos non confessos nee convictos, nee per the case or
contumaciam absentes contra juris ordinem et canonica parties!10
instituta.
Respondetur, quod literae monitoriae conceduntur primo Answer : Moni-
emptori trabarum et non aliis, et hoc sufficere debet quia to°firstrbuyere
trabas notorie debentur et ut notorius ordo estimatur, ordinem only'
non servare.
xviij. 6. — Item, ubi hujusmodi trabae de decimis sumuntur, 10 At the sole
ad solam suggestionem broggorum, ipsis Rectoribus et paro- ag^ntea^ertam
chianis, a quorum manibus hujusmodi trabas sumuntur, insciis, JJ^JS Sim-
nee citatis, imponitur numerus carucarum per singulas paro-
chias ultra verum et certum numerum carucarum contra
omnimodam rationem.
Canonici intendunt tractare cum Domino.
The Canons
intend to treat
Unde praedicti Rectores istis oppressionibus, injuriis et Wlththelord-
gravaminibus plenius intellectis, et prout consuevit, pondera-
tis, supplicant humiliter et devote ut super hiis per venera-
biles viros canonicos antedictos iisdem Rectoribus provideatur,
si placet, de remedio opportuno, ne super praedictis aliunde
remedium quaerere compellantur,
1329.
5 June.
Testimonial for
T. of Huggate.
90
BEVERLEY MINSTEE :
Conversatio.
ccxlvij. b. — Nonas Junii A.D., etc., xxix Dominus Thomas
de Hugate habuit litteras suse conversationis in forma litte-
rarum conversationis Domini Willelmi de Allerton, ut patet
supra, excepto quod scriptas fuerunt sub data iij Nonas
Junii.
[A leaf torn out after this.]
21 March.
Orders.
3 deacons.
Clerici missi ad or dines.
ccxlix. — xij Kalendas Aprilis A.D. supradicto missi fuerunt
ad ordines clerici inf rascripti ; viz,
Johannes de Swyna, Walterus de Eesceby et Ricardus de
Esk ad ordinem subdiaconatus ;
Johannes de Hornse, Henricus de Bernardby et Johannes
de Wartre ad ordinem diaconatus.
1330.
15 April.
Testimonials to
Bt. of Settringtou
and W. of Siggles-
thorn, they
swearing never
to make any
claim against
Chapter, or put
it to expense.
Anno Domini millesimo cccmo tricesimo.
Setrington.
ccxlix. 2-4. — xvij Kalendas Maii A.D. supradicto concessa
fuit littera de conversatione Domino Eoberto de Setrington
in forma litterse factse Johanni Ray lies, ut patet in folio iij°
prsecedente ; et praestitit juramentum quod nunquam contra
Capitulum impetrabit,* nee vexabit sumptibus vel expensis.
Syglestorn.
Eodem die concessa fuit Domino Willelmo de Syghlestorn
eadem littera sub data eadem, et Capitulo eundem (sic) jura-
mentum prsestitit.
Harpham.
ij Nonas Maii A.D. supradicto concessa fuit littera conversa-
for ticnis Domino Willelmo de Harpham de Beverlaco [etc. as
w. of Harpham. above f or Setrington] .
1330.
'
* i.e. to claim provision or a benefice.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK.
91
HanJcyn de Swyna.
ccxlix. 5. — viij Idus Mail [as in last, but for Sir Rt. Haukyn
de Swyna] Hiis testibus Domino Johanne de Risindon tune
auditore, et Johanne Bynder, tune clerico Capituli, Willelmo
de Katisby, Domino Willelmo Bynder, capellano, et multis
aliis.
1330.
8 May.
Testimonial.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
ccxlix. 6. — ij Kalendas Junii anno supradicto, missis fuerunt 1330.
[etc.]. orae^7-
Robertus Tote de . . . . pellion j 3 acolytes.
Johannes de B [ad ordinem acolitatus.
Hugo de Leven
Thomas de Humbelton subdiaconatus
1 sab-deacon
j- ad ordinem acolitatus.
subdiaconatus.
[ij] Kalendas Octobris anno supradicto, missi fuerunt [etc.].
Stephanus [dominus le Vere]
Henricus de Appelby
Johannes deRuda
Johannes de
de West Hornwyk
Willelmus G-unwayt de Esington
Johannes de [Swyna]
Petrus de Houden
Johannes Lydard de Leven
Henricus Bernardby
Johannes de Hornse
diaconatus.
presbiteratus.
1330.
30 Sept.
Orders.
1 acolyte.
1 sub-deacon.
4 deacons.
4 priests.
A.D. millesimo cccmo tricesimo.
xviij. b. 2. — iij Idus Octobris anno supradicto emanaverunt
litterae super convocatione celebranda die Sancti Leonardi
sub articulis infrascriptis.
1330.
Acta in convocatione
Celebrata die Sancti Leonardi, A.D. m°cccmo tricesimo, prae- 1330
sentibus convocatione, Reverendis viris et discretis Magistris convocation
Roberto de Pykeryng, Dionisio Avenell, Guilfrido de Cropo AH canons
Sancti Petri, Dominis Nicholao de Hugate pro se, et Rogero
ton
92
BF-VERLEY MINSTER:
the prebend of
S. Andrew's
vacant.
Process of
Ichorius, Rector
of Kirk Ella,
against the
Provost and
Chapter read,
and a levy made
to meet the costs
of suit.
After considera-
tion of articles
alleged by him
in letter to the
Abp. and for-
warded by him,
the following
answer sent to
the Abp.
de Nassington, Eicardo de Otringham, Canonicis; et Magistro
Willelmo de Alburwyk viii° canonico; pro prasbendario pre-
bendae Sancti Andreae tune vacantis nullo comparente.
In primis, exposita causa convocationis factse recitatoque
processu habito ad instantiam Domini Ichorii Rectoris ecclesiae
de Elvele contra Dominum Praepositum et Capitulum, prout
in cedulis prassentibus annexis plenius continetur, consensum
fuit quod ad expensas in lite faciendas, quilibet travas habens,
sive percipiens, solvat et contribuat secundum sui beneficii
quantitatem.
Item, habito tractatu super quibusdam articulis in litteris
Domini Icherii Yenerabili in Christo patri et domino Domino
Willelmo, Dei gratia Eboracensi Archiepiscopo, Angliae pri-
mati, missis, et per ipsum Magistris Roberto de Pikering,
Dionisio Avenell et Nicholao de Hugate, Canonicis, sub
literis suis clausis directis, plenaque deliberatione habita
super omnibus in literis suis contentis et super aliis quae tune
ordinaverant, dicto venerabili Patri, in forma quse sequitur,
rescripserunt.
1330.
6 Nov.
Chapter to
Archbishop.
Ask for con-
tinuance of past
favour.
Littcra supplicatoria directa Archiepiscopo per Capitulum super jure
travarum Anno Domini millesimo cccmo tricesimo.
xix.* — Yenerabili in Christo Patri et domino, Domino
Willelmo, Dei gratia Eboracensi Archiepiscopo, Angliae pri-
mati, Suum humile et devotum Capitulum ecclesiaa Sancti
Johannis Beverlacensis, obedientiam, reverentiam et honorem.
De vestris consilio auxilio et multiplicibus benevolentiis
erga nos et ecclesiam vestram Beati Johannis praedicti habitis
per Dei gratiam et habendis gratias vestras domination]'
reverendae humiles et devotas referimus, quantas scinius;
supplicantes humiliter et devote quatinus, quod gratis et
sincera benignitate vestra facere incepistis, velitis ad honorem
et defensionem juris ecclesiao vestrae praedictae continuare,
charitatis intuitu, ac nostrorum precaminum humilium inter-
ventu, Domine Reverende, secundum consilium vestrum isto
die Sancti Leonardi Convocation em fecimus, in qua habito
tractatu et plena deliberatione super hiis quae in litteris
Domini Ichorii de Concoreto nuper sub litteris vestris clausis
* Eight pages of various numbering have been inserted between p. xviii and
xix, viz. xiiij, viij, x, xj, xij, xiij, vij. They refer to later dates and will be
given in due order.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 93
Magistris Roberto de Pikeryng, Dionisio Avenell et Nicholao we cannot
de Hugate concanonicis et confratibus nostris directis vide-
licet, videtur nobis quod non possumus aliqualiter consentire KirkWa,cthat°f
quod hujusmodi travae, de quibus in litteris suis fuit mentio, mentioned should
in aequali manu ponantur donee inde plenius ut idem Dominus iSpartfal hands
Ichorius petiit a vobis sit discussum, turn quia dictae travae £ ieSJedTnot11
prius erant venditae et per ipsum emptorem ante diem Convo- ^ sow amithey
cationis pro majori parte collectae, turn quia jus ecclesiae buyer'before^fe
vestrae praedictae in hujusmodi travarum perceptione est it a Convocatlon :
notorium per totum comitatum Eboracensem, et praecipue per
partes Estriding, quod nulla possit tergiversatione celari, et
turn quia sumus in pacifica possessione, juris vel quasi hujus- SpecSiTy , that it
modi travas percipiendi et de eisdem disponendi prout
videtur nobis ad utilitatem nostram melius expedire, a anyone
tempore et per tempus cujus principii memoria non existit.
Si enim consentiremus quod hujusmodi travas in aequali
manu ponerentur, videremus jus nostrum ita notum et
notorium et certlssimum (quod absit) in dubium revocare, andweshould
et possessionem nostram pacificam in hujusmodi travarum ouTtit^S^
perceptione plurimum perturbare. possessory right.
Quocirca vestra pia paternitas et dominatio, vos, quoad hoid^SSsed
hoc, si placet, habeat excusatos.
In super ordinavimus in dicta Convocatione quod Dominus Nicholas of
Nicholaus de Hugate, concanonicus et confrater noster, et aiKiglrovost,Uhas
praepositus ecclesias vestrae praedictae, ad parliamentum jam to^o^Siia-
instans pro nobis et nomine nostris et etiam pro jure suo, Sff^e^SoS
quod pro magna parte ipsum contingit, cum copiis cartarum obSiTcJon-
Regiarum fundantium juris nostri in travis percipiendis con- thraves^wwch6
tinentium et exprimentium pariliter, accedat, et ipsum a£jasitwere
negotium nomine nostro et suo persequatur, tarn ad effectum
confirmationis ipsarum Cartarum nostrarum a Domino nostro
nunc Rege, sicut a progenitoribus suis hujusmodi optinendae
quam ad remedia secundum ipsarum Cartarum vim formam
et effectum pro jure dictae ecclesiae vestrae et elemosina dicti
Domini Regis ac progenitorum suorum, in quibus ipsius ecclesige
quasi tota substantia, et ministrorum ejusdem sustentatio
(xix. b.) consistere dinoscitur optinenda contra rebellantes et
impugnatores dictam ecclesiam vestram, ac ipsius domini nostri
Regis ac progenitorum suorum elemosinam tarn manifestam as to which the
tamque notoriam, ad quae etiam warantizandum Dominus Sundto186" is
noster Rex, sicut ex progenitorum suorum cartarum serie Ippe^bya
apparet luculentius, est astrictus. Vestram igitur paterni- Feries of c'harters-
Please, therefore,
help Nicholas, as
we trust in you
as a father.
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
tatem reverendam de qua in isto nostro et ecclesias vestraa
negotio plenam fiduciam habemus supplici devotione exposci-
mus ut eidem Domino Nicholao confratri nostro et Praeposito
ecclesias vestrae praedictas in praemissis et ipsam contingenti-
bus vestrum sanum consilium, et etiam, si oporteat, auxilium,
velitis impendere, quia de vobis sicut de patre confidimus,
opportuna ; ad vos siquidem sicut ad solum patrem et pas-
torem confugimus confidenter. Ad ecclesiaa SU«B regimen
conservet vos Altissimus incolumem et prosperum per tem-
pora diuturna.
Datis die Sancti Leonardi.
Richard of
Otringham asked
for an assessment
of his kitchen,
which is out of
repair and was
not included in
ment of defects
of prebendal
houses.
It was granted.
Protestation of
same as Canon
and Prebendary
of the prebend
of St. Stephen,
in his own name
and that of the
Chapter, that
though Master
William of
Abberwick,
holding the
benefice which
William of
Soothill held
while he lived,
was summoned
and attended the
last Convocation,
it was by the
special grace of
the Chapter ;
and he and his
predecessors had
no right to be
present at
Convocation,
unless specially
invited or
summoned.
Item, in eadem convocatione Dominus Bicardus de Otring-
ham petiit taxationem coquinao suae fieri, quae insufficiens est,
ut sibi videtur, nee taxatis alias defectibus domuum pre-
bendalium taxabatur ; et concessa fuit eidem.
xix. b. 2. — Item in eadem convocatione dictus Dominus
Bicardus de Otringham legit protestationem infrascriptam.
In Dei nomine, Amen. Ego Kicardus de Otringham,
Canonicus ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis, et Pre-
bendarius praabendaa Sancti Stephani in eadem, protestor
palam, publice et expresse nomine meo et dicti Capituli,
quod, licet Magister Willelmus de Alburwyk beneficium
optinens in eadem, quod nuper optinuit Dominus Willelmus
de Suthill dum vixit, certis et legitimis de causis ad istam
ultimam Convocationem die Martis in festo Sancti Leonardi
Abbatis factam per dictum Capitulum vocatus fuisset ad
tractandum super quibusdam negotiis ipsam ecclesiain et
statum Canonicorum ejusdem tangentibus, ac ad consentien-
dum statutis et ordinationibus tune faciendis comparuisset,
quia et gratia speciali dicti Capituli interesset in Convoca-
tione praadicta, et admissus tractatibus praedictis hujusmodi
fuit ista vice non jure suo, sed de gratia speciali dicti
Capituli, ut praemittitur, et non aliter, cum in hujusmodi
tractatibus idem Magister Willelmus de laudabili consue-
tudine ipsius ecclesiae interesse non debeat, nee ipsiiis praede-
cessores hujusmodi beneficium optinentes in talibus tractati-
bus interesse consueverunt nee de consuetudine prasdicta
interesse debuerunt, nisi per dictum Capitulum fuissent
vocati specialiter vel compulsi.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 95
xix. b. 3.— Item. Salarium Magistri Thomse de Harpham
advocati Capituli erit in arbitrio Magistri Roberti de Pykering
et Domini Nicholai de Hugate, Pr»positi ; et constituta fuit de
eorum consensu annua pensio viginti solidorum eidem in
festo Nativitatis Beati Johannis Baptistee annis futuris Agreed tbat it
solvenda ; et juravit, tactis sacrosanctis Evangeliis quod
fidelis erit Capitulo et negotia ejusdem fideliter pro[cura]bit
et secreta Capituli sibi communicata nulli communicabit in
ipsius dapnum, prasjudicium et periculum. chapte?JsecrdiB.
Conversalio.
ccxlix. 8. — xvij Kalendas Novembris concessa [etc. as above 1330.
for Setrington, for Peter Cosyn of Howden], Testimonial'.
ccxlix. b. 1. — xvij Kalendas Novembris A.D. supradicto 1330.
constituti fuerunt duo procuratores pro Capitulo in consis-
torio Eboracensi, viz. Magistri Willelmus de Hunmanby et
Willelmus de Kendale conjunctim et divisim.
Swyna. G-rym (sic).
ccxlix. b. 2. — Memorandum quod cum discordia * orta 1330.
esset inter Dominos Thomam de Grymmesby et Willelmum
vi'pnrin<8 • between Th. of
VICar. )S , Grimsby and
xiij Kalendas Novembris anno supradicto, comparuerunt
coram nobis Auditore, et tandem per interventum sociorum
concordati fuerunt. Omni rancore hinc inde dimisso, injunxi- ordered by
mus eisdem ne quis eorum jurgia lites seu discordiam ex
nunc moveat vel moveant, quovismodo sub poena xl denari-
orum, operi ecclesise applicandorum ab eo qui primus lites to Fabric Fund>
seu discordiam inter eos moveat.
Purgatio W. de Swyna.
ccxlix. b. 3. — Memorandum quod Dominus Willelmus de 1330.
Swyna, vicarius, comparuit coram nobis Auditore xij Kalen- \v. of &«?ne,'
das Novembris asserens se infamatum super adulterio cum
Alicia Bate de Barton, et petiit se ad purgationem suam Barton, th<ra«h
-j .... not legally
admittl. necessary, allowed
Nos vero, non juris necessitate, purgationem suam cum Satis of °s y
xij manu sacerdotum duximus admittendam.
* Cherchez la femme in next entry.
1330.
14 Dec.
J. the Porter,
one of the 7
clerks summoned
for repeated
misbehaviour
with Alice of
Thorn, a woman
noted for mis-
behaviour,
appeared and
denied it.
Ordered to
remove her from
his house, under
penalty in
statute " Licet."
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
Johannes le Porter.
ccxlix. b. 5. — xix Kalendas Januarii A.D. supradicto Johan-
nes le Porter, unus de septem clericis,, vocatus super recidivia
cum Alicia de Thome, muliere notata de fornicatione :
Yir comparuit et negavit, et proprio juramento se pur-
gavit ;
Et injunximus et quod ipsam amoveat a domo sua, et quod
ipsam de castero 11011 teneat sub poena contenta in consti-
tutione, ( Licet.'
Boynton.
same day. Eodem die Bicardus de Boynton vocatus super fornica-
R. of Boynton for . » •"•
similar offence tione cum Margareta le Mareschall muliere notata de f ornica-
with Margaret
the Marshal : tione ; vir comparuit et negavit ;
ordered purgation Et praefiximus sibi diem ad purg-andum se cum iiiia manu.
by 3 witnesses ; \ r. J
Quo die cum secunda manu gratiose se purgavit.
purges himself
with one.
133f
28 Jan.
Conversatio. Lyard. Ricardus de Drax.
ccxlix. b. 7. — v Kalendas Februarii A.D. supradicto concessa
fuit quaedam littera conversationis Domino Johanni Lyard de
Leven in forma concessa Domino Willelmo de Aiverton ut
patet in iijto folio praecedente, et juramentum praestitit [etc.].
133f
11 Jan.
H. of Ottringham,
vicar, summoned
for incest with
Margaret of
Ottringham, a
woman noted for
misbehaviour,
has canonical
purgation.
Hugo de OtringJiam.
ccxlix. b. 4.--iij Idus Januarii A.D. supradicto Dominus
Hugo de Otringharn, vicarius, vocatus super incestu cum
Margareta de Otringham muliere notata de fornicatione ;
vir comparuit et negavit. et in die sequenti cum sociis suis
canonice purgavit.
28 Jan;
Conversatio. Ricardus de Drax.
ccxlix. b. 8. — v Kalendas Februarii, anno supradicto con-
cessa fuit qusedam littera de conversationis Domino Eicardo
de Drax in forma superius notata et praestitit juramentum
consuetum.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 97
Convocatio.
Anno Domini m°cccmo xxxj°.
xx. b. 1. — Nonis Junii anno Domini supradicto emana- 1331.
-i -MT '• ^ June.
verunt litterae pro convocatione celebranda die Mercurii
J ... Summons for
proximo post iestum .N ativitatis Sancti Johanms Baptistae in convocation on
forma consueta.
Acta in convocatione.
xx. 2. — Celebrata die Mercurii proxime post festum Nati- 1331.
vitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae anno Domini supradicto ;
praosentibus in eadem Magistro Dionisio Avenell, Domino e canons ^e-
Nicholao de Hugate, Magistris Guilfrido de Cropo Sancti
Petri, et Eogero de Nassington, Domino Ricardo de Otring-
ham, Magistro Willelmo de Alburwyk, canonicis ; Magistris
Roberto de Pykering per Dominum Nicholaum de Hugate
procuratorem suum, Domino Bertrando de Cardiliaco prae-
bendario praobendse Sancti Andreae extra regnum agente ; 1Dg by proxy
praesentibus etiam in eadem Domino Ricardo de Grrymmeston,
Praecentore, Magistro Ada de Heselbeche, Sacrista, per Domi-
num Nicholaum de Syglilesthorn, procuratorem suum, Domino
Willelmo de Feribi, cancellario, per Dominum Johannem de
Swyna procuratorem suum ad eandem con vocation em spe-
cialiter vocatis, ut apparet per certificatorium praesentibus
annexum.
In primis, habito tractatu super expensis praescriptis con-
cesserunt unanimiter vice sua et fratrum suorum absentium,
quintam partem prebendarum suarum et portionum ad satis-
faciendum de expensis memoratis ; et quia dictam quintam Penses-
ad satisfaciendum de hujusmodi expensis sufficere non po-
tuit, quilibet canonicus concessit duos solidos ultra quintam
partem.
Procuratorium pro procurators eligendo.
ccl. 1. — iiij Nonas Septembris [etc., as before, for Sir 1331.
Rd of Ottringham, canon, for Thursday after S. Matthew's 2Sepfc>
day to elect proctors for Parliament at Westminster, on
morrow of Michaelmas day].
VOL. II. H
98
BEVERLEY MINSTER 1
1331.
18 Sept.
Orders.
2 Acolytes.
4 Subdeacons.
2 Deacons.
3 Priests.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
ccl. 2. — xiiij Kalendas Octobris anno Domini supradicl
missi fuerunt ad ordines clerici infrascripti ; viz. :
Thomas de Langton, Eicardus de Botemound ad ordinem
Acolitatus ;
Willelmus de Thresk, Thomas de Burton, Willelmus de
Leven et Henricus de Scorburgh, ad ordinem Sub-
diaconatus ;
Reginaldus de Multon, et Ricardus de Newton ad ordi-
nem Diaconatus ;
Willelmus de Keteby, Ricardus de Kyllum, et Walterus
de Resceby ad ordinem Presbiteratus.
1331.
8 Oct.
Chapter held in
the Vestry, 4
Canons present :
Ordered con-
cerning those
hindering the
collection of
S. John's Thraves,
that each Canon
collect those be-
longing to his
prebend in
person, or by his
own servants,
and not sell
them till col-
lected ; until the
conspiracy of
the Rectors
against them
come to an end.
1331.
24 Dec.
The King and
Queen came to
Beverley and
heard mass
daily.
The King gave
a cloth of gold
to the High
Altar and half
a mark, saying
that in his pre-
sence order
should be taken
for the altar
with this money.
1331.
22 Nov.
Ordinatio Canonicorum super solutions travarum.
xx. b. 2. — viij Id. Octobris, A.D. millesimo cccmo tricesimo
primo convenientibus in vestiario Magistris Roberto de
Pykering, Dionisio de Avenell, Domino Nicholao de Hugate et
Magistro Guilfrido de Cropo Sancti Petri, Canonicis, habito-
que tractatu super quibusdam negotiis ecclesise, necnon
super impedientibus solutionem travarum Sancti Johannis ;
iidem Canonici vice sua et fratrum suorum unanimiter
ordinaverunfr, quod Canonici per ministros proprios colligant
et exigant travas ad suas prasbendas spectantes, et eas de
cetero non vendant, nee Rectoribus nee aliis quibuscunque
donee eas colligerent per se et suos et cum collectse fuerint,
si velint vendere, vendant, donee conspiratio seu conjuratio
Rectorum super eisdem travis contra ecclesiam habita con-
quiescat.
In vigilia Natalis Domini anno supradicto Dominus Rex et
regina advenerunt Beverlacum et indie audiverunt missam
in ecclesia, et Dominus Rex optulit unum pannum aureum ad
magnum altare, et dimidiam marcam, dicente* quod in
praesentia ipsius ordinaretur pro altari cum hac pecunia.
Littera Domino Archiepiscopo pro excommunicato vitando :
et emanavit prsscepto Prsepositi.
ccl. 3. — Venerabili in Christo patri et domino Domino
* Sic.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 99
Willelmo, Dei gratia [etc.], Suum humile et devotum
Capitulum [etc.].
Quum excommunicatorum nomina expedit esse nota ne
Christi fideles inficiant labe sua.
Vestrae dominationi reverendae ac sanctae paternitati inno- Thomas of
-i T-k • m i T -i -i Lelle, rector of
tescat per praesentes quod Dommus Thomas de Lelle, dudum GOSWII, and j.
rector ecclesiae de Grousill et Johannes de Houton, parochiani Hoidemess, in
. . -.--.- . -. . your diocese, are
vestri in Holdernese, auctoritate nostra, ad instantiam reve- excommunicated
rendi viri Domini Nicholai de Hugate, Praspositi ecclesiae cMmedPbyDean
n. , . •. ,r „„ of Holderness.
vestrae praedictae, ob ipsorum contumaciam pariter et offensam
existentes majoris excommunicationis sententia involuti, et
sic per Decanum vestrum Holdernesensem specialiter nun-
tiati ;
Vestrae dominationi et piae paternitati supplicamus humi-
liter et devote quatinus ipsos, sic a liminibus catholicae
ecclesiae sequestrates universis Christi fidelibus, in subsidium
nostri et defensionis ecclesiae vestrae, ut nullus eisdem aliquo
genere communionis [etc.].
Pro excommunicato vitando.
ccl. 2. — To same effect as last. 1331.
22 Nov.
Letters Patent
of Chapter.
Anno Domini millesimo ccc° tricesimo primo.
xx. — Nicholao de Hugate misso per Venerabile Capitulum 1331.
ecclesiae Beati Johannis et canonicos ejusdem, de Beverlaco
usque ad London ad interessendum Parliamento apud West-
monasterium tento in crastino Beatas Katherinae Yirginis,
pro confirmatione cartarum libertatis et trabarum dictaB
Beverlacensi ecclesias impetranda ; rih vrgin •
Pro expensis suis hominum et equorum suorum a xviij0 die For 35 days from
•VT i T • • «j_ *j_ • T 18th November
JNovembris, quo die arripuit iter suum sic eundo versus to 24th Dec. ; in
London, usque xxiiij diem Decembris, primo die computato
et non ultimo, per xxxv dies per quos fuit eundo, morando
ibidem circa expeditionem negotiorum praedictorum, et or°Ma«ter"of
redeundo, viz., in pane, vino, cervisia, carne, pisce, feno,
avena et aliis hujusmodi, sicut patet per particulas, xxiju. ijs.
jd quadrans ; eidem pro denariis per ipsum solutis pro f eodo S
Domini Cancellarii et Custodis Kotulorum ipsos decreto con- fee'to th
tingente, scriptura cartarum, laqueis de serico, cera viridi, *
H2
100
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
He also asks
for price of bag-
gage horse lost
on the way, 10
marks.
Total, £36 5s. 4
scriptura brevium et feodo sigilli eorundem, et aliis diversis
necessariis, feodo Regis dumtaxat exceptio, vij11. ix8. xjd.
Idem Nicholaus petit restaurationem unius somer* sui in
dicto itinere perditi, x marcas.
Summa totalis expensarum prsedictarum, xxxvj11. v8. iiijid.
in the business Item, in negfotio et circa neerotium tenernentorum in Curia
in court of York .... . . T
between chapter Eboracensi et alibi, inter Capitulum et Dominum Icherium
and Icherius de
concorreto, Concorreto, dudum Rectorem ecclesias de Elvele, v]11. xvs.
133J.
Feb.
Procuratorium pro Procurators eligendo.
ccl. b. 1. — v Kalendas Martii [etc. as in ccl. 1. for Saturday
after S. Mathias' day for Parliament at Westminster Monday
after S. Gregory's day] .
1331
11 March.
Orders.
2 Acolytes.
1 Subdeacon.
3 Deacons.
2 Priests.
14 March.
Testimonials.
1332.
2 May.
2 June.
3 June.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
ccl. b. 2. — v Idus Martii anno supradicto missi [etc.]
Johannes de Setrington, et Henricus de Halsam ad ordinem
Acolitatus ;
Thomas de Langtona ad ordinem Subdiaconatus ;
Robertus de Mapelton, Willelmus de Threske et Johannes
de Brygham, ad ordinem Diaconatus ;
Reginaldus de Multona, et Ricardus de Neutona ad ordinem
Presbiteratus.
Conversatio.
ccl. b. 3. — ij Idus Martii A.D. supradicto concessse fuerunt
litterae conversationis Dominis Willelmo de Ketiby, Johanni
de Hornse, Johanni Bynder, capellanis, in forma litterse
concessee Domino Johanni Rayns ; et prsestiterunt jura-
mentum quod nunquam contra Capitulum impetrabunt nee
procurabunt impetrare.
Secundo die mensis Maii [same as last] Testimonial for
Sir J. of Wartre.
Secundo die mensis Junii [same as last] Testimonial for
Sir Hugh of Humbelton.
iij Nonas Junii [same as last] Testimonial for Sir Symon of
Garton.
* i.e. a sumpter-horse or baggage animal.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 101
Clerici missi ad ordines.
ccl. b. 7. — iiij Idus Junii A.D. supradicto missi [etc.] 1332.
Laurentius de Burton, ad ordinem Acolitatus; Johannes de 1 Acolyte™6'
Setrington, Johannes de Watton, Petrus de Ryse, Ricardus 5 Deacons?"3'
de Butmund et Ricardus de Appelby, ad ordinem Subdiaco- 2 Priests-
natus ; Willelmus de Frothinghama, Thomas de Langtona, '
Stephanus de Appelby, Thomas de Burton Constabell,
Henricus de Scoreburgh ad ordinem Diaconatus ; Thomas
filius Thomae le Couper de Cotum et Johannes de Ruda,
ad ordinem Presbiteratus.
Stipendarium Boynton.
Memorandum quod Kalendis Augusti A.D. m°cccmo tricesimo 1332
secundo liberata fuit pensio, viz. xxs, Magistri Thomae de 1Aus-
T> TT -i ••!•/"<• i -i •• -r-» Stipend of *1
Boynton, procuratons V enerabilis Capituli in curia Romana, jl^J*0 ""Jj*1"
Nicholao fratri suo ad huiusmodi pensionem recipiendum per Boyuton,
. J r r Chapter's proctor
Magistrum Ihomam speciahter deputato. at Rome.
[Several leaves have disappeared after this.]
Convocatio.
Acta halita super Convocatione.
xx. b. 4 — -In Dei nomine, Amen. Acta coram nobis 1333.
Capitulo ecclesiae Beverlacensis xiij Kalendas Novembris A.D. convocation
miliesimo cccmo tricesiino tertio ; videlicet, cum constaret 4 Canons pre.
nobis ad dictos diem et locum omnes et singulos confratres et
canonicos ecclesiae memoratae super arduis negotiis et iieces-
sariis dictis die et loco, cum continuatione et prorogatione Abber ck the
dierum sequentium, tractandum et expediendum personaliter
fuisse evocatos, lectisque edictis citatoriis, quibusdamque proxy*
Dominis Canonicis, videlicet, Magistro Dyonisio Avenell,
canonico et praebendario praebendae altaris Beatae Mariae,
Domino Nicholao de Hugat, canonico et praebendario altaris
Beati Jacobi, Magistro Gylfredo de Cruppo Sancti Petri,
canonico et praebendario altaris Sancti Michaelis, et Domino
Ricardo canonico et prasbendario altaris Sancti Stephani,
personaliter comparentibus ; Magistro Rogero de Nassington
et Domino Ricardo de Feriby, canonicis dictae ecclesias se
literatorie excusantibus, et per procuratores legitime con-
stitutes comparentibus; Dominoque Praacentore dictae eccle-
102
BEVERLEY MINSTER
Form of proxy
of Eoger of
Nassington, Pre-
bendary of the
prebend of the
altar of St.
Martin. As hin-
dered by difficult
business he can-
not appear,
appoints the
venerable and
discreet Master
Dennis
A.venell proxy.
Dated Peter-
borough.
sia3 personaliter comparente ; aliis videlicet, Magistris Wil-
lelmo de Alburwik, et Ada de Hesilbecke, Sacrista ecclesiae
supradictae, et Domino Willelmo de Feriby, Cancellario
ecclesiae memoratae, se literatorie excusantibus, et per procu-
ratores suos, ecclesiae supradictae confratres et concanonicos
comparentibus, quorum quidem procuratoriorum tenores
inferius seriatim patebunt.
Yenerabilibus viris et discretis Dominis Capitulo Beati
Joliannis Beverlacensis eorum f rater et concanonicus,
Rogerus de Nassington, praabendarius praebendae altaris Beati
Martini in eadem, Salutem cum omni reverentia et honore.
Quia variis et arduis negotiis praepeditus ad diem in
vestris litteris citatoriis comprehensum in Capitulo vestro una
vobiscum nequeo personaliter interesse ad comparendum illo
die cum sequentibus, si opus fuerit, pro me et meo nomine
ad tractandum et ordinandum super omnibus et singulis, quae
materia convocationis vestrae exigit et requirit, ac etiam ad
consentiendum statuendis hiis quae ad honorem et statum
ecclesiae vestrae de communi consensu Capituli nostri prae-
dicti in instanti congregatione salubriter fuerint ordinanda
seu statuenda, Yenerabilem et discretum virum Magistrum
Dyonisium Avenell ejusdem ecclesiae confratrem meum et
concanonicum, procuratorem meum ordino, facio et constituo
per praesentes : ratum habiturus et firmum, quicquid per
dictum procuratorem meum meo nomine actum fuerit in
praemissis, et quolibet praemissorum. In cujus rei testimonium
sigillum meum est appensum.
Datis apud Burgum Sancti Petri^ anno Domini m°ccc°
tricesimo tertio.
Form of proxy
of Richard of
Ferriby, Pre-
bendary of the
prebend of St.
Peter.
xxi. 2. — Venerabilibus et discretis viris Dominis Capitulo
Beati Joliannis Beverlacensis eorum frater et concanonicus
Bicardus de Feriby, praabendarius praabendae Sancti Petri in
eadem ecclesia, Salutem et obedientiam cum omni reverentia
et honore.
Certis et legitimis causis impeditus die Jovis proxima post
festum Sancti Lucas evangelistae proxiine futurum, nequiens
juxta formam citationis vestrae in Capitulo dictae ecclesiae per-
sonaliter comparere, ad comparendum et tractandum una
vobiscum dictis die et loco cum continuatione et prorogatione
dierum sequentium, si opus fuerit, super dictae ecclesiae
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 103
negotiis necessariis vel ufcilibus, necnon ad consentiendum
meo nomine una vobiscum et ceteris fratribus concanonicis
nostris, hiis, quae ibidem de eodem fratrum deliberate consilio
et assensu ad Dei honorem et ecclesige ac Capituli prae-
dictorum utilitatem contiererit ordinari, Venerabilem fratrem Appointing
Tk ' • AT- i i i TT Nicholas of
et concanonicum nostrum JJominum JNicnolaum de Hugate, Huggate, proxy.
procuratorem meum verum et legitimum ordino facio et con-
stituo per praesentes : Eatum et firmum habiturus, quicquid
idem Dominus Nicholaus consentiendum vel faciendum dux-
erit in praemissis. In cujus rei testimonium, quia sigillum
meum incognitum est plerisque, sigillum Decanatus Hert-
forhensis una cum sigillo meo appendi prassentibus procuravi.
Et ego Decanus Hertforhensis ad specialem interpellationem
dicti Bicardi sigillum officii mei praesentibus apposui.
Datis apud Hertforh iiii Id. Octobris. A.D. millesimo Dated Hertford.
mn , . . ... 12 Oct. 1333.
cccmo tricesimo tertio.
xxj. 3. — Pateat universis per praasentes, quod cum ex
praecepto et injunctione domini mei, Domini Willelmi, Dei
gratia Eboracensis Archiepiscopi, AngliaB primatis, oportebat of°wimamrofy
me Willelmum de Alburwyk, canonicum ecclesiaa Beati Johan- Abberwick-
nis Beverlacensis hac instanti die Jovis proxima post festum aii
Sancti Lucas Evangelistae proximum futurum et diebus prae-
cedentibus et subsequentibus apud Eboracum et alibi circa
ecclesias suaa et sua negotia personaliter occupari ita quod die
Jovis in Capitulo praedicto minime potero personaliter interesse unabiefto attend
ad comparendum in dicto Capitulo praefato die Jovis pro me Beverteyf&c.**
et prebenda mea, ac nomine meo ad tractandum cum venera- in the event of
bilibus viris Capitulum in dicta ecclesia Beverlacensi consti- summoSedally
tuentibus, super quibusdam negotiis ipsos et ecclesiam
praedictam statumque ejusdem tangentibus, ac consentiendum
licitis et canonicis statutis et ordinationibus quibuscunque
quaa in eadem convocatione super statu dicti Capituli et
ecclesiae praedictse fuerant sta/fcuenda, et etiam ordinanda, ac
omnia alia facienda et expedienda, cum continuatione et
prorogatione dierum subsequentium, quaa in hujusmodi nego-
tiis necessaria fuerint seu etiam opportuna, et si mandatum
exigat speciale; dilectos in Christo Dominos Nicholaum de
Hugate, Praapositum dictae ecclesiae Beverlacensem et Ricar-
dum de Grimeston, Cantorem ejusdem ecclesiaa Beverlacensis,
et alterum eorum qui tune praesens fuerit, alio absente,
divisim per se, et in solidum, meos veros et legitimos^ verum
104
BEVEKLEY MINSTER :
Seal of Deanery
of Christianity
at York.
York.
19 Nov.
et legitimum procuratores et procuratorem ordino, facio et
constituo per praesentes, Dans et concedens eisdem et eorum
alteri, qui praesens fuerit alio absente generalem potestatem
et mandatum speciale nomine meo et prebendae meae praedictae
omnia et singula praemissa facienda et expedienda juxta
eorum qualitatem pariter et naturam ; ratum et gratum
habiturus quicquid dicti procuratores mei, et eorum alter qui
praesens fuerit alio absente, fecerint, seu fecerit, in praemissis.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum praesenti procura-
torio meo apposui ; et quia sigillum meum pluribus est incog-
nitum sigillum decanatus Christianitatis Eboracensis dicto
procuratorio apponi procuravi in testimonium prasmissorum.
Datis Eboraci xiiij Kalendas Novembris A.D. m°cccmo tri-
cesimo tertio.
Same day.
Form of Proxy
of Adam of
Heselbeach,
Sacrist.
A.D. m°cccmo xxxiij0.
Hesilbeche.
xxj. b. — Pateat universis per praesentes; quod cum ex
praecepto et injunctione domini mei Domini Willelmi, Dei
gratia, Eboracensis Archiepiscopi, Angliae primatis, oportebat
me, Adam de Hesilbeche, Sacristam ecclesiae Beati Johanuis
Beverlacensis hac instanti die Jovis proximo post festum
Sancti Lucae Evangelistae proxime futurum et diebus praece-
dentibus et subsequentibus apud Eboracum et alibi circa
ecclesiae suae et sua negotia personaliter occupari, ita quod
dicto die Jovis in Capitulo ecclesiae praedictae minime potero
personaliter interesse, ad comparendum in dicto Capitulo
praefato die Jovis [etc. as in last form, except that Ricardum
de Otringham is named as first proxy instead of Nicholas
Hugate; and he is to act "in my name and that of my
sacristy" (sacristiae meae) instead of "my prebend"].
Same day.
Form of proxy
of William
Ferriby, Chan-
cellor.
oftehecchurchhts
Jthde?.£ each
Willelmus Feriby, Cancellarius.
[The same form as the last except that chancellorship is
substituted for sacristy.]
xxj. b 3. — In eadem convocatione statutum et ordi-
natum quod omnes prebendarii et portionistae facient contri-
butionem pro juribus et consuetudinibus ecclesiae sustinendis.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 105
Item, quod omnes facient contributionem pro defensione
juris et actionis uniuscujusque.
Ada in Capitulo nostro secunda die Convocations
Videlicet, xj Kalendas Novembris anno gratiae supradicto, 1333.
Canonicis et portionariis in dicto Capitulo comparentibus, Acts of^Sesnd
habitoque tractatu diligenti super statu et negotiis ecclesiae d^y of convoca-
memoratse. A tenth for this
Consensum est, statutum et ordinatum ex unanimi consensu teenthfor" three
totius Capituli, quod quilibet tarn Canonicus quam portion- tobJpaidTJtL
arius decimam partem beneficii sui, quod optinet in ecclesia defenceofathe°r
praedicta, pro defensione jurium, possessionum, reddituum, et seSons^f the"
alioruni rerum ad dictum Capitulum qualitercunque spectan- Churuh-
tium pro anno praesenti contribuat, et per tres annos proximo
subsequentes ex causa praam issa quintamdecimam beneficii
sui quilibet contribuat ; qu88 quidem pecunia sic soluta re-
manebit in manibus Camerarii, omnino parata, cum Capitu-
lum eidem pro expensis necessariis indiguerit.
Insuper ordinatum extitit et condictum quod causa seu The cause of one
T f -i i brother, c.0 *^-
negotium unms de confratribus quantum ad def ensionem erit gards defence,
.. n T . is to be the
causa smgulorum, adeo quod de pecunia communiter contn- cause of an and
, • '-i ,. T -i • i. to be defended
buta ob causam praemissam detendetur sibi et singulis con- out of the
f ., . . . common fund so
tratribus et concanomcis consentientibus in nac parte, et contributed.
praemissa ratificantibus ; necnon quilibet canonicus recipiet
a dicto Camerario de praefata pecunia pro defensione juris
ecclesiae per indenturam, prout indiguerit, et ordinatum exstitit
in convocatione praedicta.
Anno Domini millesimo ccc tricesimo tertio.
xxii. b. — Memorandum, quod tertio Idus Novembris libe- 1333.
ratae fuerunt ad litteram Domini N. de Hugat, quam Magister
D. Avenel habet penes se, cuidam clerico nomine Eicardo de
Santuna, quaedam carta regia et quaedam confirmatio regia
libertatum, videlicet, Domini Edwardi regis tertii.
sent
him by Richard
of Sancton,
Memorandum quod Idibus Februarii anno supradicto libe-
rata fuerunt Domino Nicholao de Hugate monimenta infra-
scripta; videlicet (prima), una bulla Adriani, et (secunda)
106
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
Delivered to \
Hugate, Bulls of
Adrian, Gregory,
Alexander,
Honorius,
Popes; Con-
firmations of
Abps. Thurston,
Roger, Walter
Grey ; Charter
of King John ;
3 Letters of
Archbishops,
one of W. Green-
field, two of
William of
Melton.
Claim of the
Canons to enjoy
their liberties as
well before the
Justices of
Assize as before
the Justices of
either Bench ;
and that their
bailiff may by
petition claim
and have cog-
nizance of pleas
of lands and
tenements of his
fee in the
Canons' Court,
as heretofore ;
without the
necessity of
proving the
right every time.
1334.
18 June.
Chapter to
Archbishop.
At your request
Canon Richard
of Ottringham's
absence excused,
and he to receive
as if present.
We have con-
ferred with the
Prior of Wartre ;
Adam of Picker-
ing, rector of
Londes-
brough ; John
of Grimsby,
rector of Wres-
sel, in the
name of the
Rectors of the
Deanery of
Harthill, who
asked for the
redress of cer-
tain grievances.
We answered,
" Some of the so-
called grievances
alia G-regorii, et alia (tertia) alii Gregorii, et alia (quarta)
Alexandri et alia Honorii; et tres confirmationes episcopo-
rum, videlicet, una Thurstini, et alia Roger i, tertia Walteri
de Grey ; et una carta Johannis, Regis Angliae ; tres litterae
Archiepiscoporum directae archidiaconis, officialibus, Deca-
nis, videlicet, una Willelmi de G-renefelde et duae litteree
Willelmi de Meletun.
xxij. b. 3. — Canonici ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis
petunt gaudere libertatibus suis coram justiciariis Domini
Regis quibuscunque, tarn coram justiciariis ad assisas capien-
das assignatis quam contra justiciaries Domini Regis de
utroque banco ; et quod ballivus eorum possit calumpniare et
habere ad petitionem suam cognitionem placitorum de terris
et tenementis coram eisdem justitiariis deductis de feodo
ejus in curia dictorum canonicorum, sicut et ipsi et prae-
decessores sui [hjactenus usi consueverunt ; ita quod
singulis vicibus quotiens justitiarii sederint periculose def erre,
et eos exhibere non teneantur, cum sufficere debeat coram
justitiariis itinerantibus de libertatibus illis, praecipue cum
sint omnibus notes, fidem facere, si oporteat.
Super crimina.
vij. 2nd ser.*" — xiiij Kalendas Julii, pontificatus vestri
decimo-septimo, Reverendas paternitatis vestrae optentu
dictum Dominum Ricardum de Otringham concanonicum
et confratrem nostrum quantum ad absentiam suam pro
hoc instanti festo Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistaa pro
excusato habemus : ita quod occasione nil sibi penitus sub-
trahetur, sed sibi reservabitur quicquid percepturus esset,
si in dicta ecclesia vestra personaliter interfuisset.
Ad haec vestrse dominationi Reverendae tenore praesentium
innotescimus nos cum Domino Priore de Wartria, Magistro
Adam de Pykering, Rectore ecclesiae de Lownesburgh,
Domino Johanne de Grimesby, Rectore ecclesias de Wresell,
nomine suo et nomine Rectorum Decanatus de Herthill, ut
dicebant, post litteras vestras nobis alias directas tractatum
habuisse ; qui gravamina quaedam per eosdem alias suggesta
resanari per nos ab initio petierunt ; ad quod eisdem per nos
responsum extitit in hunc modum ; quod nos quaedam, quas
dicebant, gravamina, ut potuimus, reformavirnus ; alia siqui-
* This is inserted between f. xiij and xix.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 107
dem praetensa, qu.se, obstantibus consuetudinibus et libertati-
bus ecclesiae vestras per nos juratis, refurmare non potuimus ; aiieged°griev-
consensimus concorditer, quod per vos et consilium vestrum, SaCreystb0eithlcus-
si et quatenus apparerent esse gravamina, et per nos non cTirch weecouid
poterunt justificari, juste et debite reformentur ; super
quibus cum dictis Kectoribus dixerunt se velle deliberare;
Ac postmodum per intervallum temporis venit dictus
Magister Adam de Pykering ex parte ipsorum, ut dicebat, et
habito tractatu cum Magistro Gluilfrido, canonico et fratre
nostro tune praesente, dixit eos velle se submittere ordination!
vestrae super viis in litteris vestris alias nobis missis contentis,
et non aliter. to us-
Sane, pater reverende, quia via a nobis eis oblata etsi
rationibilis et' justa ac juri proxima habeatur, et consona
ration!, ab ipsis, tamen, ut per ipsorum responsionis prae-
cisionem apparet, est totaliter derelicta ; Ex quo verisimiliter, whence we infer
. . ... T n i • they aim at the
quia potius vere conjicimus, quod ad subversionem status subversion of
ecclesiae vestrae et nostri verisimiliter molliuntur; quod ex estate asyt°h£
eo apparet luculenter, quod viae in literis vestris contentae SoncS woSid in-
juris et possessionis nostrorum manifestam inducerent muta-
tionem, et ex consequent! ecclesiae vestrae ac vestri et nostri
status subversionem ; ad quod ipsos velle agere certis indiciis
suspicamur ;
Propter quod, pater reverende, viis ipsorum praetactis
condescendere simpliciter ad praesens non possumus ullo
modo, nisi per vos possint induci ; ut dum circa viam
secundam, quae nobis magis placita videtur, ordinandam ac
confirmandam a vobis et Capitulo vestro ecclesiae Ebora- best, confirmed
J- by you and your
censi, accidente etiam ad hoc Domini nostri Eegis, cujus y^^with the
fulcimur privileges, assensu et consensu, ac aliorum quorum ^Tn^anVcon
interest, et sedis apostolicse confirmatione, et certa scientia p^JanS aiithe
special!, nos in ipsarum travarum perceptione pacifica et chu?chnandywer
plena, absque aliquorum ipsius impedimento ac perturbatione initeMmemay
qualibet ipsorum vel aliorum, quantum in ipsis est et esse f ui and fun pos-
poterit, ipsa vera ecclesia gaudeat; et nos ipsi ecclesiae tliraves.
vestrae nomine gaudeamus.
Haec vestras paternitati reverendae, quia alias vias tutas This we say
nobis non videmus, devotius intimamus, supplicibus affectibus
deprecantes ut in hiis tarn arduis tamque periculosis vos
ecclesiam vestram et nos contingentibus, salubre vestrum
consilium, saniorem ac tutiorem pro nobis ecclesia vestra et hopl ?ifyou,ur
nobis deliberationem, cum ceteris vestris bene placitis inti-
BEVERLEY M]
mare dignemini nobis ; vestris qui in vobis praecipue, post
Deum et patronum nostrum Sanctum Johannem, ancoram
fiximus spei nostrse. Ad ecclesiae suse sanctae regimen vos
conservet Altissimus felicem et prosperum per tempora
dinturna.
1334.
4 Aug.
Chapter to
Richard of
Sancton, clerk.
The church and
we are seised in
full and peaceful
possession of the
sheaves, that is,
the thraves of
sheaves, com-
monly called
S. John Bever-
ley's thraves, in
parishes of
Pocklington,
Bainton, Weigh-
ton, Ferriby,
and Wetwang,
and all other
churches in the
diocese of York
which have here-
tofore paid
them, issuing
out of their
lands and tithes,
but the rectors
and others
hinder their
collection.
We therefore
authorise you to
coerce those who
disturb our
rights by all
legitimate eccle-
siastical cen-
sures.
Anno Domino millesimo cccmo tricesimo quarto.
vij. b. — Capitulum ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis,
Eboracensis dioccesis, Discrete viro Magistro Ricardo de
Santon, clerico, Salutem in omnium Salvatore.
Cum dicta ecclesia nostra Beverlacensis ac nos et singuli
canonici ejusdem ecclesiae ac alii ministri ejusdem nomine
ipsius ecclesiae simus et sint, fuerimus et fuerint, in plena et
pacifica, canonica et sufficienti possessione, vel quasi juris,
percipiendi, Garbas, videlicet, trabas garbarum, quae vul-
gariter nuncupantur travae ecclesiae Sancti Johannis Beverla-
censis in omnibus et singulis parochiis ecclesiarum de Poke-
lington, Baynton, Whigton, Feribi, et Wettewang; ac
omnium aliarum et singularum ecclesiarum, quae hujusmodi
travas attentius solvere consueverunt, dictae Eboracensis
diocoeseos, de parte decimarum, provenientes de terris et
culturis existentibus infra parochias ipsarum ecclesiarum a
tempore et per tempus, cujus contrarium memoria non
existit ; ac ipsarum ecclesiarum Rectores per se et alios ac
quidam alii, ut intelleximus, nos, in perceptione hujusmodi
garbarum et travarum, ac ministros nostros impedire,
molestare, et inquietare molliuntur, et graviter com-
minantur ;
Nos de vestris circumspectione et industria plenius con-
fidentes ad defendendum jura ecclesiae nostrae prsedictae, et
nostra ejusdem nomine nobis competentia, circa perception em
et dispositionem dictarum trabarum per quascunque censuras
ecclesiasticas licit as contra quoscunque hujusmodi jurium
nostrorum impeditores seu perturbaiites, monitionibus legi-
timis praemissis (servato juris ordine et processu, qui in hoc
casu de jure requiritur), vobis vices nostras committimus,
cum cohercionis canonicae potestate ; mandantes quatinus de
hiis, quae feceritis in praemissis, nos reddere curetis debite
certiores. Valet e.
Datis Beverlaci ij Nonas Augusti anno Domini millesimo
cccmo tricesimo quarto.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 109
Clerici missi ad ordines.
vii. b. 2. — Memorandum quod xii Kalendas Octobris A.D. 1334.
T L • • £ j. r i. I -IT 20 Sept.
supradicto missi ruerunt [_etc.J videlicet Orders,
Johannes de Lunde de Beverlaco ad ordinem acolitatus. lAcoiyte.
Johannes Barker de Beverlaco, Willelmus de Rosse, i Deacon.
Rogerus de Gartona, Robertus de Setryngtona, et Johannes
de Brun, ad ordinem subdiaconatus ; et Robertus de Brump-
ton, ad ordinem diaconatus ; Simon de Merfleet et Henricus
de Halsam ad ordinem presbiteratus.
Et prasdictus Simon de Merflet non stetit per totum tempus ; had^stayed a
attamen Dominus Nicholaus de Hugat ilium licentiavit. Deacon b^was
licensed by N. of
Huggate.
* Litter a Domini Regis graciosa pro travis solvendis ecclesice
Beverlacensi sine impedimento aliquali.
viij. — Willelmus permissione divina Eboracensis Archiepis-
copus, Angliae primas, dilecto filio officiali curias nostrae
Eboracensis, Salutem, gratiain et benedictionem. thf1^61110^
Litteras excellentissimi principis et domini nostri Edwardi, ,
•*- •*• % Abp. Wilham
Dei gratia Regis Anglias illustris, Domini Hiberniae. et Ducis (Meiton) to the
00 y official of the
Aquitanias, recepimus, verborum qui sequitur sub tenore : court of rork
Al honorable pier en Dieu, W. per la meismes grace Erce- sends on letters
vesque d'Everwike, primat d'Engleterre, salutes.
Cum nadgers eussioms mandets nos lettres as ascouns we have formerly
Priours et persones des eglises de la desnee de Herthill deinz
votre dioceise, chargeant eaux q'ils reen temptassent centre
les chanoignes et ministres del eglise seynt Johan de Beverle toe^otto?og
en drayt de les traves, quels il ount resceu et eu peisiblement, jSj£}fop'!*
du temps dont il nad memoire, du donne de nos progenitours,
et per confermement de nos auncestres et de nous, et eyoms
entendus que nent countresteiauntes nos diets lettres ils
safforcent a destruoere la dite eglise de Beverle de mesmes
son droyte, qest Talmoigne de nos dites progenitours et la
notre, et quen chose nous ne voelloms ne nedevons sooffrir
(ne vous ne le devets voiller questce prelat de meismes 1' eglise
et tenus de la sauver et maintenir et garder en tous ses
droytes et franchises) vous prioms et chargeoms especialement,
qe les dites Priours et persones amohestes per vos lettres
to collect their
* This page is bound up out of its order after f. xiiij., which is itself out of thraves freely.
order.
Dated under
Privy Seal 25
Sept. 18°
Edward III.
We stirred by
the King's com-
mands, who
intends prompt
remedy by his
laws against all
malignantly
trespassing on
the liberties of
the church of
S. John and his
alms called S.
John's thraves,
and fearing lest
in our time the
rights which
have come down
from time imme-
morial should by
our negligence
be extinguished
or diminished,
and have to
render account
thereof at the
day of judgment;
We command
you to enjoin all
Rectors of the
churches of
Harthill that
they neither
directly nor in-
directly, openly
or secretly, ob-
struct the sale
and collection of
the thraves, &c.,
110
BEVERLEY MINSTER i
not putting
their sickles in
another's crop.
ferment enjoiniaunts q'ils surseent desore du tout de tieux,
mesprisiouns et torts fayre a la dite eglise et soeffrent les
diets chanoignes et ministres fair coiller pasiblement et fraun-
chement les diets traves et dicelles ordeyner a lour volente
solonct ces qu'ils ont fait en cea.
Donne souts nostre prive seal a Westmoustier le xxv jour
de Septembre Ian de notre Regne eytisme.
Nos vero regiis mandatis et precibus excitati, qui jura
ecclesiae nostrae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis et libertates
ejusdem, elemosinamque suam quas travae Beati Johannis
nuncupantur, contra quoscunque malignantes adversus earn,
jure suo regio affectat,* ut tenetur, promptis remediis dispen-
sare : Et ne nos temporibus nostris dicta jura et libertates
in toto vel in parte, quod absit, ex negligentia seu tolerantia
temere permittamus, in exterminium prolabi, aut dampna-
biliter incidere in ruinam, unde pariter id maledictionis quod
a dicti Sancti cultoribus in eo eventu reportaremus tanta non
immerito segnities in extreme divini judicii examine de
nostris manibus requireretur, nee offensam Dei conniventia
evadere crederemus, dum integra perceptio travarum de qui-
bus praemittitur et pacifica possessio earumdenr, quae per
dictam ecclesiam et ejus ministros sic fuit et est optenta, a
tempore et per tempus cujus contrarii memoria non existit,
nostra tepescente vigilantia et pastorali solicitudine dormi-
ente, in dubium nostris temporibus, quae certa semper hactenus
fuit, hominum possit malitiis revocari, aut, quod abnuat
Omnipotens, in aliquo mutilari.
Vobis firmiter injungentes mandamus quatinus omnes et
singulos Rector es ecclesiarum de Herthill in virtute sanctas
obedientiae nobis juratae nominatim cum praesentes fuerint,
vel procuratores eorumdem, sub poena canonicas districtionis
legitime moneatis et efficaciter induci faciatis, quod circa col-
lection em, venditionem, perception em, seu quamvis aliam
dispositionem dictarum travarum praefatae ecclesiae nostrae
Beati Johannis Beverlacensis canonicos seu ministros, aut
per eos, vel eorum aliquem deputatos seu deputandos, de
cetero clam nee palam per se, alium nee alios, directe vel
indirecte impediant, molestent quomodolibet nee perturbent :
Immo deinceps ab omnimodis impedimentis molestiis et
perturbationibus hujusmodi se cohibeant et desistant, adver-
* A mistake of scribe probably for jure suo regio affectantes ut tenemur.
CSAtTEK ACT BOOK. Ill
tentes quantae sit virtutis unumquemque suis finibus con-
tentari, falcesque suas in messera non immittere alienam.
Et quid in prgemissis feceritis, qualiterque dicti Eectores Let us know
i • , • i . n 2 ,., I -, • , • what you do and
responderint in hoc casu, et quid finaliter f acere voluermt in the names of
, -T • ••• -I • -i- • those who dis-
nac parte JNos una cum nominibus nuic monitioni vestrae, obey.
immo potius nostrae, non parentium cum ea celeritate qua
poteritis, et per Capitulum Beverlacense requisiti fueritis,
reddere curetis debite certiores, ut dictum Dominum nostrum
Regem super hiis valeamus plenius informare, ad ilium
effectum ut intendit.
Nosque dicta jura et libertates ecclesias nostrae memoratae,
ad quos forti vinculo astricti sumus, sicut nostis, Integra,
illassa, at etiam illibata, divina favente dementia nostris
semper temporibus conservemus.
Yalete. Datis apud Lanum. Nonis Octobris A.D. millesimo Dated at
' Laneham.
cccmo tricesimo quarto et Pontificatus nostri decimo octavo.
Littera non residentise.
vij. b. 3. — Capitulum [etc.] dilecto nobis in Christo Domino 1334.
Henrico Bassett, Cancellario ecclesiae praedictae, Salutem in
auctore salutis.
Yestris precibus inclinati vobis licentiam absentandi a die the Minster.
franslationis Sancti Benedicti anno Domini millesimo cccmo
tricesimo quarto usque ad finem anni totaliter completi ; eo 21 April>
non obstante quod ad personalem residentiam et continuam
efficaciter estis asfcrictus, tenore prassentium quatinus ad vos
attinet indulgemus.
Proviso quod ecclesia nostra in hiis quas in ea ad vestrum
spectant omcium interim non fraudetur ; et quod in eadem
ecclesia in vestra absentia procuratorem ydoiieum habeatis,
qui in omnibus et singulis omcium vestrum contingentibus
debite respondeat loco vestro.
Datis Beverlaci ij Idus Octobris anno Domini supradicto.
Clerici missi ad ordines*
viij. 2nd ser. b. 1. — Memorandum quod viij Idus Martii,
A.D. millesimo cccmo tricesimo quarto missi fuerunt [etc.] . orders.March'
Johannes Jordan ad ordinem acolitatus ; i Acolyte.
Johannes Asilyoht de Elveley ad ordinem subdiaconatus ; } Deacon?°n'
Et Johannes del Yle, ad ordinem diaconatus ;
112
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
The acolyte not
ordained as he
did not dare to
cross the Hum-
ber because of
the weather.
1335.
6 April.
Master William
of Scarborough
admitted to
corrody called
Berfelles on
resignation of
Simon Virley and
presentation of
Nicholas of
Provost.
Et dictus Johannes Jordan non ordinatus revenit, quia
non audebat transfretare Humbriam propter tempestatem.
Admissio Magistri Willelmi de Scorburgh.
x. i. — viij Idus Aprilis anno Domini millesimo cccmo tri-
cesimo quinto Magistri Willelmus de Scorburgh, clericus,
comparuit coram Capitulo cum litteris Domini Nicholai de
Hugate, Praepositi ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis,
quorum tenor talis est :
Venerabili Capitulo ecclesias Beati Johannis Beverlacensis
Nicholaus de Hugate, Praepositus ejusdem ecclesias, Salutem
in amplexibus Salvatoris.
Quia corrodium quod dicitur berfelles quod fuit Domini
Symonis Yirli in ecclesia Beati Johannis Beverlacensis prse-
dicta in nostris manibus et coram nobis per ejusdem Domini
Symonis resignation em spontaneam vacans, et ad nostram
spectans collationem, Dilecto clerico nostro Magistro Wil-
lelmo de Scorburgh de Beverlaco contulimus, intuitu
caritatis ;
Vos requirimus et rogamus quatinus praedictum Magistrum
Willelmum ad dictum corrodium admittere velitis in personam-
que ejusdem modo consueto quod vestrum est ulterius ex-
equentes. Valete.
Datis Beverlaci decimo die mensis Aprilis, anno Domini
millesimo cccmo tricesimo quinto.
Quibus lectis praedictus Magister Willelmus per dictum
Capitulum extiterat ad dictum corrodium admissus, jura-
mento praestito consueto, ac stallo per Sub-pra3centorem in
choro eidem assignato ; in spiritualibus per librum et in tem-
poralibus per panem canonice extitit institutus.
1335.
29 June.
Chapter of
Beverley to
Edward III.
Thomas of Hug-
gate, chaplain,
sent with banner
Missio Domini Thomse de Hugat cum vexillo
Sancti Johannis.
viij. (2nd ser.) b. 3. — A tres noble prince, nostre seigneur
sire Edward, par la grace de Dieu roy Dengleterre seigneur
Dirlande, et Duche Daquitayn, les soens chapelayns de
chapitre de seint Johan de Beverle, oveske la benison dieux,
totes maners de reverences et honors.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 133
Tres douce seygnour nos envoyoms la baner seinte Johan
per Thomas de Hugat, nostre chapellayne, portour de cestes
lettres, laqel voillez doucement, seygnour, receyver, en bone
devocion et en grant humilite com vostre bon ael solayt f aire, g the whole
et fiablement espeirer de la grace de dieux en vos affayres per of Scotlai"i.
layde de seinte Johan, per qi ayde le Roy Adelstane votre
ancestre, et votre ael avanfcdit conquistront tote Escoces.
Et nous qi somes les chapellayns seint Johan et le voz
selom nostre pouer prieroms pour vous, que Dieu per sa mercie
vous save et touz le vos, et meyn et remayne seyns et saufs,
et vous doygne sa grace en tous vos affayrs.
Escrite a Beverley le iour des Apostres seyntez Petre et
Paule, Pan nostre seygnour Jesu Criste, mile trecentes
trents et quinte *et regni Kegis Edwardi iij nono.
Admissio Magistri Willelmi de Bredon.
viij. (2nd ser.) b. 2. — Tenerabili Capitulo ecclesiae Beati 1335.
Johannis Beverlacensis Henricus Bassett, Cancelarius (sic) Presentation of
ejusdem ecclesiae, Salutem, obedientiam, reverentiam et
Rectorship of
Beverley aram-
Vestrae discretioni reverendae tenore praesentium duximus
significandum, nos Magistro Willelmo de Bredon de Bever-
laco, regimen scolarum gramaticalium per mortem Magistri
Galfridi de Whiteby nuper Rectoris earumdem vacantium,
caritatis intuitu contulisse,
Quocirca discretionem vestram requirimus et rogamus
quatinus circa eundem ulterius exequamini, si placet, quod
vobis in hac parte incumbit.
Vigeat et valeat vestra prosperitas diu in Domino.
Datis Lincolniae die Dominica proxima ante f estum Assump- Dated Lincoln.
tionis Beatae Marias Yirginis anno Domini m°cccmo tricesimo
quinto.
Littera non residentise.
x. (2nd ser) 2.— Capitulum ecclesiae Beati Johannis Bever- 1335.
lacensis Dilecto nobis in Christo Magistro Willelmo de Scor- chapter toPt>
burgh de Beverlaco, clerico Berfellario ecclesias memoratse,
Salutem in auctore salutis.
* These last words are added in a later hand.
VOL. II. 1
114
BEVERLEY MINSTEK,
Licence of non-
residence for a
year on request
of Sir Robert of
Scorbrough,
knight, notwith-
standing obliga-
tion to reside :
Provided the
church be not
defrauded of any
due, and a suffi-
cient proxy be
left.
Precibus nobilis viri Domini Koberti de Scorburgh_, militis,
nobis pro te specialiter factis favorabiliter inclinati, lit a die
praesentium per unum annum continuum a dicta ecclesia nostra
te valeas absentare, tibi licentiam concedimus specialem, eo
non obstante quod ad personalem residentiam et continuam
efficaciter es astrictus : Proviso tamen quod eadem ecclesia
nostra in hiis quae in ea ad tuum spectant officium, dicto
anno durante, nullatenus defraudetur, in eademque in tua
absentia procuratorem dimittas sufficienter instructum, qui in
omnibus et singulis tuum officium contingentibus respondeat
loco tuo, prout decet. Yalete.
Datis Beverlaci iij Kalendas Octobris anno Domini millesimo
tricesimo quinto.
1335.
28 Oct.
Admission by
Nicholas of Hug-
gate, and Hugh
of Teesdale re-
presenting the
Chapter,
Admissio Willelmi de Maltona de Hugate.
x. (2nd ser.) 5. — v Kalendas Novembris anno Domino supra-
dicto Willelmus de Maltona de Hugat comparuit coram
Capitulo, Domino Nicholao de Hugat et Domino Auditore
causarum Capituli Beverlacensis, viz. Magistro Hugone de
Tesdale dictum Capitulum repraesentantibus ; et porrexit
eidem Capitulo litteras Domini Praepositi in haec verba :
of William of
Malton of Hug-
gate to the office
of Mason, vacant
by death of
William de la
Mare, on pre-
sentation of
Nicholas of
Huggate,
Provost.
Venerabili Capitulo ecclesias Beati Johannis Beverlacensis,
Nicholaus de Hugat Praepositus ejusdem ecclesiae Salutem in
amplexibus Salvatoris.
Cum nos officium Latomi in ecclesia Beati Johannis prae-
dicta per mortem Willelmi de la Mare nuper vacans dilecto
nobis in Christo Willelmo de Malton de Hugate contulerimus
intuitu caritatis, Yos requirimus et rogamus quatinus eundem
Willelmum ad officium prsedictum admittatis, et in corporalem
possessionem ejusdem inducatis, seu etiam induci faciatis,
ulteriusque quod vestrum est circa ipsum velitis exequi
effectualiter in hac parte. Yalete.
Datis Beverlaci in festo Apostolorum Symonis (sic) anno
Domini millesimo cccmo tricesimo quinto.
Quibus lectis praedictus Willelmus de Malton per dictum
Capitulum extiterat admissus juxta consuetudinem ecclesias
antedictaa.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 115
Admissio Domini Johannis de Hornesse junioris ad cantariam
Altaris Sanctss Katerinse.
x. b. — Pateat universis per praesentes quod nos Capitulum
ecclesias Beati Johannis Beverlacensis litteras recepimus infra-
SCriptaS. following letter :
John of Hornsea
Suis Dominis reverendis, Venerabili Capitulo ecclesiaa
Beati Johannis Beverlacensis, sui humiles et devoti capellani ^
Johannes de Hornese, Thomas de Grymesby, Johannes de the chapter.
Kosse, Thomas de Hugat, Eogerus Jordan, Eicardus de
Kyllom et Gregorius de Pokelington, vicarii septem majorum
Canonicorum ecclesiae memoratae, Obedientiary reverentiam et
honorem.
Ad cantariam quam Dominus Johannes Pynder habuit in we present to
^ t * the chantry
ecclesia antedicta, per resignationem ejusdem vacantem et
ad nostram prsesentationem spectantem, dilectum nobis in
Christo Dominum Johannem de Hornesse juniorem veslraB
dominationi reverendse praesentamus, supplicantes humiliter
et devote quatinus prasfatum Dominum Johannem ad dictam
cantariam admittere dignemini, intuitu caritatis, et perpetuum
capellanum instituere in ea; et quod vestrum est ulterius
circa ipsum exequi cum favore. Valeat vestra dominatio
reverenda per tempera prospera et longaeva.
Datis Beverlaci sub sigillo nostro communi xvirj Kalendas 1335.
-^ , . .,, . , . . , 14 Nov. 1335.
Decembris A.D. millesimo cccmo tricesimo qumto. under vicars'
common seal.
Harum super virtute litterarum dictum Dominum Johannem these letters we
ad dictam cantariam secundum formam ordinationis inde the said John to
„ -i • - . ,., . r* 11 - the said chantry.
fact83 admisimus et mstituimus perpetuum Capellanum in
eadem ; prasstitoque ab eodem juramento ipsum in corporalem
possessionem dictaa cantarias induci fecimus, ut decebat. In
cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum praesentibus est
appensum.
Datis Beverlaci xvij Kalendas Decembris A.D. supradicto.
Hotham.
1 OOK
x. b, 2, — Memorandum, quod die Stephani in tempore 2? Dec
Natalis Domini anno ejusdem Domini millesimo cccmo ^r joh^n °f wiU
trecesimo quinto, Matilda, relicta Johannis Trehow defuncti, Trehow granted
i 2
110
BEVERLEY MINSTEK
to his widow
Matilda.
comparuit coram Auditore causarum Capituli, cum testamento
dicti Johannis, Testibus juratis et examinatis super eodem
testamento, ac dicto testamento in forma juris legitime
probato, dicta Matilda administration em bonorum dicti de-
functi tanquam principalis executrix recepit in forma juris.
133£.
13 March.
Orders.
Henry of
Grimsby to the
order of acolyte :
3 to the
order of Sub-
deaconry : 4 to
the order of
Deaconry and
John de Lyle to
the order of
Priesthood.
1336.
26 March.
Admission of
Gregory of
Pocklington,
chaplain, to
Vicar-choralship
of prebend of
S. Martin on
presentation of
Canon John of
Nassington,
Prebendary ;
vacant by death
of William of
Swine.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
x. b. 3. — Memorandum, quod iij Idus Martii A.D. supradicto
missi fuerunt ad ordines clerici infrascripti, viz. :
Henricus de Grimesby ad ordinem accolitatus ;
Stephanus de Rosse, Johannes de Lunde de Beverlaco
et Johannes Jordan de eadem ad ordinem sub-
diaconatus ;
Johannes le Barker de Beverlaco, Johannes de Brunn,
Johannes de Elveley et Eobertus de Setrington ad
ordinem diaconatus, et Johannes delyle ad ordinem
presbiteratus.
viij. (2nd ser.) b. 4. — Universis pateat per prsesentes quod
Nos Capitulum ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis ad
praesentationem reverendi et discreti viri Johannis de
Nassington, concanonici et confratris nostri, et praebendae
Sancti Martini in eadem ecclesia nostra praebendarii, Dominurn
G-regorii (sic) de Pokelington capellanum, ad vicariam prae-
bendae suae praedictae in ecclesia memorata per resignationem
Domini Willelmi de Swyne ultimi vicarii vacantem, in forma
consueta admisimus, et instituimus perpetuum vicarium
canonice in eadem ; ac ipsum assignato sibi stallo in choro,
necnon etiam omnibus ceteris debitis et consuetis in hac
parte plenius observatis, prout consuetude ecclesiae prasdictas
exigit et requirit, in possession em dictae vicarias cum suis
juribus et pertinentiis universis induximus corporalem.
In cujus rei testimonium, etc.
Datis Beverlaci in Capitulo nostro vij Kalendas Aprilis
anno Domini m°ccc° tricesimo quinto.
1336.
22 May.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
xj. b. — Memorandum quod xj Kalendas Junii anno Domini
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 117
supradicto missi fueruut ad ordines clerici infrascripti : orders.
videlicet, 2 Subdeaoon*.
Henricus de Brun ad ordinem accolitatus ; i
Ricardus de Keldegate de Beverlaco et Adam Spicer
ad ordinem subdiaconatus;
Robertus de Scoreburgh, Willelmus dictus Ulras et
Walterus de Sancto Mauro, ad ordinem diaconatus ;
ac Willelmus de Rosse ad ordinem presbiteratus.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
Anno Domini m°ccc tricesimo sexto. 1334.
xi. b. 1 . — Memorandum quod iij Idus Martii A.D. supradicto Orders>
missi fuerunt [etc.] 2 Acolytes.
Willelmus de Frismersh et Hugo de Bekeby ad ordi- 4 Deacons.
. . 2 Priests.
nem accolitatus,
Willelmus de Ryse, ad ordinem subdiaconatus ;
Radulphus Bridd de Keldgate, Kobertus de Cotring-
ham, Rob ertus Tunny de Hedon, Johannes de Lunde
de Beverlaco, ad ordinem subdiaconatus ;
Petrus de Rosse, Johannes le Barker de Beverlaco,
ad ordinem presbiteratus.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
xj. b. 2. — Memorandum quod iiij Nonas Aprilis A.D. m°cccrao 1337.
tricesimo septimo missi fuerunt [etc.].. orderlApnh
Johannes de Ravenser, ad ordinem acolitatus ; i Acolyte.
Hugo de Bekeby, ad ordinem subdiaconatus ; 4 Priests;
Robertus de Scorburgh, Ricardus de Hugate, Walterus but the would be
de Sancto Mauro, Walterus de Hunkelby, ad ordi- deTco^'and^ of
, .. the Priests failed
nem presbiteratus. in their ex-
Sed praedicti Johannes de Ravenser, Hugo de Bekeby, ca
Robertus de Scorburgh et Ricardus fuerunt examinati et
revenerunt non ordinati.
Admissio Johannis Thorneton de Coppandale.
cclij.* — Memorandum quod ij Kalendas Junii A.D. millesimo
31 May.
* Several leaves have disappeared between this and the last one. Jolm Thornton
BEVER-LEY MINSTER:
Copandale,
merchant of
Beverley,
admitted Cook in
the Bedern,
under grant
by deed of John,
son of lugelram
the Porter :
took the usual
oath.
cccmo septimo Johannes Thornton Coppandale de Beverlaco,
mercator, coram Reverendis viris Domino Nicholao de Hugate,
Magistro Dionysio Avenell, Rogero de Nassington, G-uilfrido
de Croppo Sancti Petri, Domino E/icardo de Otringham, con-
canonicis, tune Capitulum facientibus, et Dominis Gregorio
de Pokelington et Johanne de Hornese, vicariis, personaliter
comparuit ;
Et fuit admissus et in corporalem possessionem inductus
ad onicium Coci in Bedernge Beverlaci cum omnibus juribus
et pertinentiis universis ; quod quidem onicium Johannes films
Ingelrami le Porter sibi dedit et concessit, et per cartam
suam feoffavit.
Quo admisso, prasstitit juramentum consuetum et debitum.
1337.
17 Sept.
Orders.
2 Acolytes.
2 Subdeacona.
1 Deacon.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
xj. (2nd ser.) b. 6. — Memorandum quod xv Kalendas
Octobris A.D. millesimo trecentesimo septimo, missi fuerunt
[etc.]-
Nicholaus de Swyna, et Johannes de Ravenser, ad
ordinem accolitatus ;
Laurentius de Dalton, et Thomas de Swyna, ad ordi-
nem subdiaconatus ;
Et Johannes Whyte, ad ordinem diaconatus.
1337.
11 June.
Orders.
1 of each order.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
xj. (2nd 'ser.). — Memorandum quod iij Idus Junii A.D.
supradicto missi fuerunt [etc.].
Johannes de Ravenser, ad ordinem accolitatus ;
Johannes de Halsam et Hugo de Bekeby, ad ordinem
subdiaconatus ;
Adam Jordan, ad ordinem diaconatus ;
Robertus de Scorburgh, Ricardus de Hugate, ad ordi-
nem presbiteratus.
13 Jan.
Ministri Bedernse.
xjt b. — Memorandum quod Idibus Januarii A.D. millesimo
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 119
cccraoxxxvii° Willelmus Perchet, Henricus Claviger, Simon servants of the
-r» • T /~+i T-» • •• Bedern sworn
Braciator, Johannes Clote et Kicardus minister suus, com- in before the
paruerunt coram Capitulo et fuerunt jurati Capitulo quod
quilibet eorum fideliter administrabit in officio suo.
Benteley.
Memorandum quod die Mercurii proxima ante festum
Sancti Yincentis, anno Domini, m°cccmo tricesimo septimo,
Johannes Page de Benteley. Willelmus Page et Thomas,
& J ' ' Page of Bentley
fratres dicti Johannis. Thomas de Langton, cyssor, et and other iay-
. . men cited ex
Robertus Bolor -junior de Resceby, citati personaliter ad in- officio ask for
J J> r . time till Satur-
stantiam omen nostri, causam rationabilem si quam habeant, day following
. . r and copy of cita-
quare in sententiam majoris excommumcatioms [etc.J ; coram tionjjtia
nobis Auditore personaliter comparuerunt, nilque proposito
ex parte eorumdem, inducias petierunt, pro eo. quod layci they are ad-
_ _ . mitted to purga-
sunt : unde datus est dies Sabbati proxime sequens gratiose tion, and case
i-i j«x • ..,.*'. T , j. dismissed.
ad idem, petita prms copia citacioms, et decreta ; quo die,
prsesentibus personaliter, comparuerunt, negantes factum, et
petierunt se admitti ad purgationem, et gratiose se pur-
gaverunt, et fuerunt dimissi ab impetratione officii.
Benteley Resceby.
xij. — Die Mercurii proxima ante festum Sancti Yincentii, suan.
anno Domini supradicto, Johannes Page de Benteley, Wil-
lelmus et Thomas, fratres ejusdem Johannis, Thomas de Bentey.two
T . _^n -i-,i •• •, i ' -i • i >• brothers, Thomas
Langton, cissor, et Kobertus Bolor junior citati ad instantiam of Langton,
Roberti, filii Thomae de Resceby, Margerie uxoris SUSB, Robert Boior,
Willelmi et AdaB filiorum dicti Roberti coram nobis, Auditore moned by
causarum Capituli Beverlacensis, personaliter comparuerunt : Thomas of
,. . -r, , „,. mT" ,,,.. Beverley, his
et quia dictus Robertus films Thomas et uxor sua cum filns wife and 2 sons,
noluerunt procedere contra Johannem Page et consocios would not pro-
T . T , ...» . ceed. dismissed,
superius notatos, dictus Johannes et consom sui fuerunt with protest as
T . , . to COStS.
dimissi cum protestatione expensarum.
Acta in Capitulo
xij. 2. — viij Kalendas Februarii anno Domini m°cccmo 1331..
xxxvii0. 25 Jan-
J Chapter.
120
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
Johanna of tbe
Dairy, cited by
John of Wet-
wang, Alice of
Hoyden :
John Serjeant of
Burstwick, her
husband appears
for her.
Next day pro-
mised to deliver
the goods on
pain of excom-
munication.
Johanna de la Vachery, citata ad instantiam Domini
Johannis de Wettewang, tutoris, Aliciae filiae Ricardi de
Hoyden, minoris, non comparuit : sed Johannes Serviens
de Brustwyke, maritus dictae Johannae, et defendebat illam,
et ratificabit factum suum sub posna dimidii marcae. Pro-
posito articulo cujus tenor talis est :
In Dei nomine, Amen. Alicia filia Eicardi de Hoyden
minor, nomine tutoris, etc.
Datus est dies crastinus parti reae ad deliberandum et
utrique, etc. Quo die pars actrix comparuit ut supra, pars
rea personaliter, et ratificavit factum dicti Johannis, et
fa[tetur] bona et liberavit bona supradicta die crastino, sub
poena excommunicationis.
133|.
25 Jan.
William of Weel
to pay 4s. 6d. to
Bichard of
Ottringham
within 3 days.
Three persons
suspended for
not appearing
when summoned.
viij Kalendas Februarii A.D. supradicto Willelmus de
Wele condempnatur Domino Kicardo de Otringham in
iiijs yjd^ solvendis infra triduum.
Ricardus filius Hugonis, Issabell Popel, Thomas de Burton,
citati ad instantiam Roberti de Scorburgh, carnificis, non
comparuerunt, ideo suspensi et citati.
Littera concessa Magistro Antonio de G-oldesburgh super
admissione sua ad prsebendam Sancti Jacobi.
1338.
6 July.
Mr. Anthony of
Goldsborough
admitted to
S. James' pre-
bend, after death
of Nich. Huggate,
in virtue of Papal
provision.
Admissio Magistri Antonii de Goldesburgh ad prsebendam
Sancti Jacobi.
clj. 1. — Universis sanctae matris ecclesias filiis, ad quorum
notitiam praesentes litterae pervenerint, Capitulum [etc.],
Salutem in Dominum sempiternam.
Vestra noverit Universitas Dominum Nicholaum de Hugate,
canonicum dudum et praebendarium prasbendse S. Jacobi in
ecclesia [etc.] in vigilia Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae
A.D. inillesimo cccm° tricesimo octavo diem suum clausit extre-
mum.
Ac die Jovis proximo post idem festum Nativitatis [etc.]
procurator reverendi viri Magistri Antonii de Goldesburgh,
canonici praefatas ecclesias, \_MS. torn] dictam praebendam
Altaris S. Jacobi per mortem dicti Domini Nicholai, ut pra3-
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 121
mittitur, vacantem, nomine dicti Magistri [MS. torn] in
ecclesia Beati Petri Eboracensis, coram reverendo viro Ma-
gistro Johanne de Warenna, canonico praedictae ecclesiae,
[MS. torn] executoria Magistrorum Thomae Fastulf, execu-
toris principalis gratiae et provisionis dicto Magistro Anto
[MS. torn] factarum, Magistro Johanne de Bukthorp,
publico notario, et aliis, testibus ad hoc specialiter rogatis
et vocatis.
[MS. torn] atione in quodam instrument© publico per
dictum Magistrum Johannem de Bukthorp, publicum nota-
rium, super [M8. torn] praebendae S. Jacobi facto plenius
continetur ; prout nobis qui dictum publicum instrumentum
[MS. torn] nobis ostensum prima facie apparuit, canonice
acceptavit.
Necnon praedictae acceptationis notifica [MS. torn] Johannis
de Warenna, subexecutor praedictus, dicto Magistro Antonio
in persona procuratoris sui et dicto [MS. torn] praedicti
domini sui, juris ordine qui si hac parte praequiritur in omni-
bus observato, dictam praebendam S. Jacobi [MS. torn]
ipsius vacantem, et per dictum procuratorem in forma prae-
dicta legitime acceptatam, coram dicto notario [MS. torn]
rogatus specialiter et vocatus, dicto die Jovis in ecclesia
Beati Petri praedicti canonice contulit, et [MS. torn] suo,
prout moris est, legistime investivit.
Consequentique die Yeneris tune proximo subsequenti
dictus [Magister] Johannes [etc.] ad supradictam ecclesiam
Beati Johannis Beverlacensis personaliter accedens dictum
Magistrum Antonium in personam procuratoris sui, et ipsum
procuratorem nomine domini sui, in corporalem possessionem
dictae praebendae S. Jacobi induxit et installavit, in praesentia
dicti Magistri Johannis de Bukthorpe, notarii antedicti, et
aliorum testium ad hoc rogatorum specialiter et vocatis ;
bulla et processu integro gratiae dicti Magistri Antonii ibidem
primo ostensis et visis, et pro parte lectis.
Super omnibus et singulis prout superius ad plenum deno-
tantur, instrumentis publicis penes praefatam partem dicti
Magistri Antonii habitis, jam extitit nobis plena fides.
Ac nos visis praesentibus et intellects, dictum Magistrum
Antonium in personam procuratoris sui in saepedictam prae-
bendam S. Jacobi canonice admisimus, ipsumque in perso-
nam procuratoris sui in corporalem possessionem ejusdem
praebendae die Sabbati proximo post festum Nativitatis [etc.]
122
BEVERLET MINSTER :
A.D. supradicto induximus, ac prout moris est, secundum
jura et consuetudines ecclesiae [etc.] installavimus justitia
exigent e.
cj. b. 1. — Insuper dictus Magister Antonius die Yeneris
proximo ante festum Translationis S. Thomae Martiris A.D.
supradicto in ecclesia [etc.] personaliter comparuit, ac ibidem
ex habundanti secundum formam constitution! s ecclesiaa
[etc.] in habitu competenti et decenti per nos Capitulum
supradictum in concanonicum et in fratrem ecclesiaa [etc.]
adniissus extitit, necnon in corporal em possessionem praefatae
praBbend83 altaris S. Jacobi, in spiritualibus per librum, in
temporalibus vero per panem et cervisiam loco in Capitulo
et stallo in choro sibi assignatis, prout moris est, secundum
juris exigentiam pacifice et plene, et sufficienter extitit
inductus.
In quorum omnium testimonium sigillum nostrum ad
citationes et petitiones faciendas, praesentibus duximus
apponendum.
Datis Beverlaci in Capitulo nostro sexto die mensis Julii
anno Domini supradicto.
13 July
gate, clerk.
(date of will not
Minster.
£ioo sterling for
burial and gifts
toyou.
Executors within
a month of death
to hire eo chap-
lains, seculais,
to celebrate con-
[ Will of Provost and Canon Nicholas of HuggateJ]
xij. b. 2. — In nomine Sanctae et individuse Trinitatis Patris,
Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
Ego Nicholaus de Hugate, clericus, sanus mente et cor-
pore, testamentum meum condo in hunc modum.
in primis, lego animam meam Deo et Beatae Mariae Yirgini
efc omnibus sanctis, et corpus meum ad sepeliendum in ecclesia
Beati Johannis Beverlacensis.
Item lego pro expensis funeralibus die sepulturge meae et
ad luminaria et alia necessaria. et ad eroff andum pauperibus
centum libras sterlingorum.
Item volo et injungo executoribus testamenti mei pras-
. . , J , . .-, v . £
sentis. quod ipsi statim post mortem meam, videlicet, infra
r . r ; '.
mensem a die notitioms mortis mea8 conducant sexagmta*
* These 60 chaplains to pray for a whole year, is the largest provision of the
kind that I have come across. What had Huggate done ?
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 123
capellanos stipendiaries seculares, bonae opinionis et famae, ad
celebrandum pro anima mea continuo per totum annum da to be
sequentem ; et ad hoc etiam, ad dicendum cotidie, durante
anno illo, commendationem, et placebo et dirige, unusquisque
eorum obligetur per juramentum et in verbo Dei respiciendo Dirige for soul-
sancta Dei evangelia ; et ad stipendia capellanorum illorum ^2a°g°egOT their
lego ducentas libras sterlingorum.
Item, lego fabricae ecclesiaB Beati Petri Eboracensis unum TO fabric of
, „ 1 York Minster
palafridum meum vel decem marcas sterlinfforum. a palfrey or 10
marks.
Item, lego fabricae ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis TO fabric
T /. . T T -, , . of. Beverley the
unum palamdum meum vel decem marcas sterlingorum. same.
Item, lego fabricse ecclesiae Beatae Mariae Lincolniensis TO fabric of
, , . Lincoln Minster
decem marcas sterlingorum. the same.
Item, lego fabricae ecclesiaB Sancti Martini Maarni Lon- £°™abr-c?f
fe. Martm-le-
doniensis centum solidos sterlingorum. Grand, London,
100s.
Item, lego cuilibet vicario chori Beati Petri Eboracensis TO every vicar
tres solidos : item lego cuilibet diacono et subdiacono ejus- 3s. ; deacon and
dem ecclesia3 duos solidos ; item lego cuilibet puero cnori chorister 6d.s' '
ejusdem ecclesiaB sex denarios.
Item, lego cuilibet vicario chori ecclesiae Sancti Johannis TO every vicar
. . choral of
Beverlacensis tres solidos; item cuilibet diacono et sub- Beverley 3s.;
diacono et acolito eiusdem ecclesiae duodecim denarios. deacon' and
acolyte Is.
Item, lego fabricae ecclesias de Hugate quinque marcas TO church of
sterlinfforum: item, lego eidem ecclesiae unum novum missale mark?; anew
. ,.„ . j Missal with
notatum cum tropario, et unum portirorium magnum de usu music,
_, . tropar, and a
Eboracen SI. big breviary of
York use.
Item, lego fratribus prsedicatoribus Eboraci viginti gj™, and
solidos ; fratribus minoribus Eboraci viginti solidos ; f ratri- Minorites at
bus Sancti Augustini Eboraci, unam marcam: fratribus de Augustinian and
Carmelite friars,
Monte Carmeli Eboraci, unam marcam. a mark.
Item, lego fratribus praedicatoribus Beverlaci viginti soli- p^cSSis and
dos, et fratribus minoribus ejusdem villae Beverlaci, viginti
solidos.
Item lego fratribus Sancti Augustini de Kyngeston-super-
Hull unara marcam et fratribus de Monte Carmeli ejusdem
villae unam marcam.
Item lego fratribus praedicatoribus villae de Skardburgh, SeSrsar
viginti solidos, et fratribus minoribus ejusdem villae, viginti Minorites of
124
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
Scarborough
20s. ; to Carme-
lites a mark.
solidos, et fratribus de Monte Carmeli ejusdem villas, unam
marcam.
Item, lego fratribus praedicatoribus de Pontefracto, viginti
solidos.
Item lego Willelmo de Malton unum equum et unam
peciam cum co-operculo.
Item lego Aliciae, sorori meae, viginti libras argenti et
duos ciphos platos argenti, quatuor vaccas et centum
bidentes.
Item lego Margaritas filiae suae quinque marcas argenti
et unam peciam argenti, duas vaccas et sex coclearia
argentea.
Item lego Alinae filiae Nicholai Oobay, viginti solidos et
daughter of AT- • • • • T T
Nicholas oobay, unam vaccam. Item lego Alicias sorori suae viginti solidos et
20s. and a cow; ° . ...,.,
to her sisters unam vaccam. Item lego Menas sorori suae viginti solidos
Alice and Ellen
the same." et unam vaccam.
Friars Preachers
of Pontefract 20s.
To William of
Malton a horse
and piece of
plate with cover.
To sister Alice
£20 of silver,
2 silver cups,
4 cows, and 100
sheep.
silver spoons.
To Alice Yong
the same.
Item lego Aliciae filiae Roberti le Yong viginti solidos et
unam vaccam. Item lego Johanni filio Nicholai Oobay
To John, son of J
oobay 40s. and a quadraginta solidos et unam vaccam.
To William
Midleton 40s. ;
his brother John
20s.
To William, son
of W. Attemar,
40s., 2 cows, and
20 sows.
To John, vicar
of Asgarby,
5 marks, 50 ewes.
TO Avice, widow
of John at
Friars, 20s. and
cow.
To his son Hugh
a mark.
To William, son
of Nicholas at the
Spring, a mark ;
his sisters, Alice
and Mariot, 10s.
each.
To William, son
of Cecily
Attemar, 1
mark.
To poor rela-
tions 10 marks
as sister Alice
directs.
Item lego Willelmo de Midelton quadraginta solidos. Item
lego Johanni fratri ejusdem Willelmi viginti solidos.
Item lego Willelmo filio Willelmi Attemar quadraginta
solidos et duas vaccas et viginti sues matrices.
Item lego Domino Johanni vicario de Asgarthby quinque
marcas et quinquaginta oves matrices.
Item lego Aviciae quondam uxori Johannis ad Fratres
viginti solidos et unam vaccam. Item lego Hugoni filio
Johannis ad Fratres unam marcam.
Item lego Willelmo filio Nicholai ad fontem unam marcam.
Item lego Aliciae, sorori suae, decem solidos. Item lego
Mariotae, sorori suae, decem solidos.
Item lego Willelmo filio Ceciliae Attemar unam marcam.
Item lego ad distribuendum inter pauperes parentes meos
quibus nihil legavi in prassenti testamento meo, secundum
ordinationem Aliciae sororis meae, decem marcas.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 125
Item lego Domino Johanni de Sex Vallibus, capellano, TO John of
VT Thixendale,
viginti solidos. Item lego capellano parochiae de Hugate chaplain, 20s.
unam marcam. Item lego clerico parochiae de Hugate tres TO chaplain of
SolidoS. mark; Parish
clerk 3s.
Item lego f atribus minoribus de Doncastre viginti solidos. TO Friars Minors
of Doncaster 20s.
Item lego fratribus Sancti Augustini de Tykhill, unam
marcam.
Memorandum quod iij Id. Julii anno Domini millesimo
trescentesimo tricesimo octavo coram *
Taxatio domorum prssbendse altaris Sancti Jacobi.
cclj. b. 2. — Memorandum quod Idibus Julii A.D. millesimo 1338.
cccmo tricesimo octavo Capitulum [etc.] ad instantiam et 15July-
petitionem Domini Johannis de Weltwang, procuratoris Assessment of
reverendi viri Magistri Antonii de Goldesburg, praebendarii g^ame^pre-01
prgebendse altaris S. Jacobi in ecclesia [etc.] injunxit ^^ mansion-
Dominis Johanni de [MS. torn] de Grymesbi, Johanni de
Benigholm, Hugoni de Otringham, Thomas de Hugate.,
Johanni de [MS. torn] Gregorio de Pokelington et Eoberto
de Stelforth, vicariis ; Koberto de Wellwyke^ et aliis bene-
ficiatis, necnon Hugoni pistori et aliis laycis infra jurisdic-
tionem Capituli Beverlacensi commorantibus, ut [MS torn]
dictaa praebendae S. Jacobi personaliter accederent et tracta-
rent in quo statu Dominus [MS. torn] ultimus prasbendarius
ejusdem dictam praabendam et domos ejusdem recepit, et in
quo statu ipsas dimisit, quid ad defec [MS. torn] a praede-
cessore suo recepit^ quid apposuit, et qui defectus pervene-
runt suo tempore :
Qui [MS. torn] dictarum domorum ipsos defectus ad
duodecim libras taxaverunt.
Dicunt etiam quod dictus Dominus Nicholaus [MS. torn]
ruinosas tempore quo dictam praebendam admisit, et in
meliori et competentiori statu eas [MS. torn] tibus dictarum
domorum a praedecessore suo [blank in MS.] libras habuit,
et plus circa reparationem diet [MS. torn] tempore suo
apposuit prout dicunt.
* Here the entry, presumably of probate, suddenly breaks off. The space that
follows is partly filled by what seems to be a notary's mark, of an elaborate
design of interlacing diamonds with trefoil points.
126
BEVERLEY MINSTER I
Quas quidem duodecim libras dictus Magister Antonius
de [MS. torn] dicti Domini Nicholai recepit ; de quibus circa
reparationem unius cameras eidem annexae ex parte occi-
dentali [MS. torn] infra prsebendam munimentum, sex libras
sterlingorum expendidit.
1338.
30 July.
Before the
Chapter's
Richard of Seyce,
Peter and
Thomas of
Woodmansey,
Richard of Weel
confessed to
owing 11 marks
10s. to Richard
of Ferriby for
tithes of sheaves
and hay, and
ordered to pay
under pain of
excommunica-
tion.
Feribi Wodmanse.
xiij. 2. — Memorandum, quod iij Kalendas Augusti anno
Domini etc. xxxviij, coram nobis Yenerabilis Capituli ecclesiae
Beati Johannis Beverlacensis Auditore causarum, Ricardus de
Sidese, Petrus de Wodmanse, Eicardus filius Thomas de
eadem, et Ricardus de Wele de eadem personaliter com-
paruerunt; et fatebantur se teneri Domino Ricardo de
Ferribi in undecim marcis, decem solidis, pro decimis gar-
barum et f ceni de Wodmanse et Sidese, solvendis dicto Domino
Ricardo, vel ejus certo procuratori ad festa Ascensionis
Domini et Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistse proxime
futura sine ulteriori dilatione.
Ac nos Auditor prasdictus confessionem eorumdem secuti,
ipsos, et eorumdem quemlibet in solidum, in dictis undecimis
marcis et decem solidis praedicto Domino Ricardo terminis
praenotatis fideliter solvendis per sententiam praecepti, sub
pcena excommunicationis, exnunc prout extunc, in hiis
scriptis condempnamus.
1338.
18 Aug.
Before the
Chapter's com-
missary Marma-
duke Con-
stable appeared
in person and
confessed debt
of 3£ marks to
Master Roger of
Nassington for
the thraves of
Holme in Spald-
ingmoor, and was
ordered to pay
on pain of ex-
communication.
Nassington. Conestable.
xiij. 3. — Memorandum quod xv Kalendas Septembris A.D.
supradicto, coram nobis etc. Commissario, Marmaducus le
Conestable, comparuit personaliter et fatebatur se teneri
Magistro Rogero de Nassington, in tribus marcis et dimidio
sterlingorum pro travis de Holme in Spaldigmore sibi venditis
et liberatis, solvendis eidem Magistro Rogero vel suo certo
procuratori ad festa Ascensionis Dominicae et Nativitatis
Sancti Johannis Baptistas proximo futura sine ulteriori
dilatione, ac nos Commissarius praedictus confessionem sponta-
neam dicti Marmaduci secuti ipsum in dicta pecunia terminis
praenotatis fideliter persolvenda sub pcena excommunicationis,
ex nunc prout ex tune, per sententiam prsecepti in hiis
scriptis condempnamus.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 127
[Against the Bedern Miller. ~\ Nigel, miner of
the Bedern,
xiij. 4. — Te Nigellum, molendinarium de Bederna Bever- have incurred
lacensi. propter tuam manifestam offensam in maiori excom- communication
. • • • ,- • • •• • •-,• and to be guilty
mumcatioms sententia, necnon in reatum perjum incidisse of perjury.
pronuntiamus in Mis scrip tis.
Nassington. Spaldingmore.
xiij. b. 1. — Memorandum quod iij Nonas Octobris A.D. 1338.
millesimo ccc tricesimo octavo Johannes Pratt de Spal- John Pratt of
dington, Henricus Power de eadem coram nobis Yenerabilis Sred^pay
Capituli ecclesise Beati Johannis Beverlacensis Auditoris sinfton e marks
causarum Commissario, juxta confessionem suam sponta- s^nGaXring
neam condempnantur Magistro Rogero de Nassington in mJorTon1 pain of
sex marcis sterlingorum pro travis Sancti Johannis de Seton ^^
gadering in Spaldingmore, sub poena excommunicationis,
per praecepti sententiam ; solvendis eidem Magistro Rogero
de Nassington vel ejus certo procuratori apud Bever] acum
ad festum Ascensionis Domini et festum Nativitatis Sancti
Johannis Baptistae proximo futura.
De cerotecis contribuendis ministris ecclesise.* 1338.
Custom of giving
xni. b. 2. — In Dei nomine. Auditis et intellects mentis gloves by newiy
. created Bache-
causae seu negotn, quae coram nobis, Auditore causarum lorsinthe
•T ^ • T i • r n • BeverleyMin-
venerabms Oapituli ecclesiae [etc. super prsestatione et ster Grammar
. . . J , . School declared
traditione cerothecarum ministris ecclesiae memoratse com- legally binding :
petentium, a Baculariis de novo creandis in scolis grama-
ticalibus prsefatas ecclesiaa tradendarum, ex nostri officii gloves each, to
debito vertebatur: videlicet clerico Capituli et Auditori. tosummonerj
. ~ ., ,. i • n •• to the chamber-
unum par. praecom Capituli, unum par, clerico Camerarii ; Iain's clerk, to
,,..,,. T , , • , the clerk of Our
clerico altaris ±>eat83 Manee: clerico tabulamj in cnoro con- Lady's Altar; to
. . . clerks of the
ncienti : et tribus sacristis ecclesise saspedictaa : cuilibet table ; to each
r . . of the three
eorum unum par cerotecarum. ex consuetudine lesfitima et sacrists or
Sextons.
diutius approbata de jure debitarum,
Yerum quia dictam consuetudinem coram nobis legitime
esse probatam invenimus. dictam consuetudinem de cetero
. .,. . TI« All who infringe
ndeliter perpetuis temporibus in prasstatione et solutione
hujusmodi cerotecarum firmiter observandam; immo omnes
* A long glove which would extend over the elbow is drawn in margin.
f i.e. The clerk whose duty it was to enter on the board hanging up in the
choir the names of those who were to serve as Eectores chori, readers of lessons,
officiators at masses, and the like for each day.
328
BEVETCLEY MINSTER:
cated.
et singulos dictam consuetudinem de cetero infringentes, seu
quovismodo violantes in majoris excommunicationis sententiam,
quater in anno in praefata ecclesias publice et notorie latam
ipso facto incidere sententialiter et diffinitive pronuntiamus
in hi is scrip tis.
1338.
16 Sept.
Orders.
2 Acolytes.
6 Subdeacons.
5 Deacons.
2 Priests.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
xiij. (2nd ser.) 5. — Memorandum quod xvj Kalendas Octo-
bris A.D. supradieto missi fuerunt [etc.] :
Willelmus Fourn, et Johannes de Kychemundia de
Beverlaco, ad ordinem accolitatus ;
Thomas Lax de Northburton, Petrus Idull de Hedon,
Willelmus de Frysmark, Willelmus de Strattforth,
Nicholaus de Swina de Beverlaco, et Willelmus de
Newsom de eadem, ad ordinem subdiaconatus ;
Elyas de Walkington, Thomas de Swina, Laurentius
de Dalton, Hugo de Bryggstoke, et Hugo de North-
burgh, ad ordinem diaconatus ;
Eobertus de Cotingham et Willelmus de Ryse ad
ordinem presbiteratus.
1338.
28 Sept.
William of Skel-
ton of Driffield
to pay Bertrand
de Cardeillac
£6 for thraves of
Driffield.
1338.
Rd. of Boynton,
clerk of the
berfell, mis-
behaves with
Juliana of Scor-
brough, con-
fesses, and is to
do what justice
demands on
7 Dec.
Rd. of the Pek
cited for buying
and selling in the
Minster ; and
three others.
John of Roos,
vicar choral,
adulterer with
Elizabeth.
xiij. b. 3. — Memorandum quod iiij Kalendas Octobris anno
Domini [etc.] octavo ; Willelmus de Skelton de Drifeld con-
dempnatur juxta confessionem suam Magistro Bertrando de
Cardelhaco in sex libris sterlingorum pro travis de Driffeld
solvendis die dominica proxima ante festum Nativitatis
Johannis Baptistae proxime futurum sine ulteriori dilatione ;
et adhuc est juratus.
xiij. b. 4. — Eicardus de Boynton, Clericus de Berfell,
fornicatur cum quadam Juliana de Scorburgh.
Comparet et fatetur publice ; et habet diem Lunas proxi-
mum post festum Sancti Nicholai proxime futurum ad facien-
dum quod justum fuerit.
Kicardus del Pek, citatus pro eo quod tenet mercimonia
sua, emens et vendens, in ecclesia Beverlacensi ; et similiter
Simon dictus Chapman, Willelmus de Storke j Nicholaus de
Lindesay ex causa prsedicta comparuerunt personaliter.
Dominus Johannes de Kosse, vicarius ecclesiae Beverla-
censis, adulteratur cum Elizabeth.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 129
Johannes Webster, citatus ad instanciam Domini Johannis
de Wettewang, non comparet ; ideo suspensus.*
xiij. b. 8. — Dominus Ingelramus de Otringham, capellanus,
fornicatur cum Cecilia Chequer de Rimes well; comparet et
negat publice, et habet diem Mercurii proximum futurum ad
purgandum cum sex capellanis bonae conditionis : quo die
comparet, et petiit dilationem ulteriorem, et habet diem Mer-
curii proxime futurum ad purgandum [etc.] ut prius. WMCMS er time
granted.
xiiij. (2nd ser.).t — Ricardus deBeynton, clericus de Berfel,
citatus, non comparuit : et ideo suspensus, et citatus ; et quia
non comparet, ideo eundem propter suam contumaciam multi- f or not appear-
plicatam ad instantiam officii nostri coram nobis contractam moned.
in hiis scrip tis excommunicamus.
Willelmus, filius Ceciliae Mundi de Walkington, juxta con- 133f .
fessionem suam, executoribus testamenti Roberti Snawe in
octo marcis sterlingorum coram nobis Venerabilis Capituli
Beverlacensis Auditore causarum, xiiij Kalendas Februarii
A.D. [etc.] octavo, sub poena excommunicationis majoris ex-
nunc.
Willelmus de Ruddbi, citatus, non comparuit, sed quidam
Robertus de Funer defendebat eum sub poena xv denari-
orum.
xiiij. 5. — Thomas de Levenig de Mollescroft, Johannes de
Hotham, Willelmus de Hundesflete et Johannes films Gral- pay tithes of hay
. . and thraves to
mdi de eadem condempnantur Domino Ricardo de Otrmgham Richard of
, , . „ Ottringham.
in decima rceni et trabarum.
Clerici missi ad ordines.
xiij. 6. — Memorandum quod xij Kalendas Martii A.D. supra- 1338.
dicto missi fuerunt [etc.]. is Feb.
Willelmus de Braken, ad ordinem subdiaconatus ; orders.
Petrus Pull et Johannes de Tybthorp, ad ordinem 2rScons?n'
diaconatus; 5 Priests.
* Only suspended from entrance to church, not to the gallows, as it would
mean in an Assize Koll.
t This follows p. xviij of 1st series.
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130
BEVERLEV MINSTER
Johannes White, Adam Specer, Hugo de Briggstok,
Hugo de Northburgh, et Laurentius de Dalton, ad
ordinem presbiteratus.
1339.
5 April.
Thomas of Hug-
gate, vicar
choral, and John
Butler of
Beverley.
Allegation that
John called
Butler had
violated his
oath, in his
office in the
Bedern, and
should be ex-
communicated.
Denial.
Witnesses pro-
duced.
[The Bedern Butler.']
xiiij. (2nd ser.) 6. — Memorandum quod ISTonis Aprilis anno
Domini millesimo cccmo tricesinio nono Domino Thoma de
Hugate, perpetuo vicario chori ecclesiae Beati Johannis Bever-
lacensis, et Johanne Boteller de Beverlaco, ad instantiam
dicti Domini Thomae legitime evocato coram nobis venera-
bilis Capituli ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis Auditore
causarum, personaliter comparentibus, propositoque ex parte
dicti Thomae contra dictum Johannem articulo, cujus tenor
talis est :
In Dei nomine Amen. Petit Thomas de Hugate perpetuus
vicarius chori ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis per viam
notoriam et de piano Johannem dictum Boteller de Beverlaco,
pro eo, quod statuta, ordinationes et libertates ecclesiae Sancti
Johannis supradicti in praejudicium prasfati Thomas scienter,
malitiose, notorie et manifeste ac animo indurato violaverit,
necnon jur amentum suum ad sacrosancta Dei evangelia cor-
poraliter prasstitum de fideliter administrando in officio suo
in Bederna Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis in praejudicium
ejusdem Domini Thomae scienter et malitiose fregit ac notorie
violavit, in ecclesiasticaeque libertatis dampnum non modi-
cum et gravamen, ac aliorum perniciosum exemplum, in
majoris excommunicationis sententiam sic incidisse, et jura-
mentum suum, ut praemittitur, praestitum temere violasse, per
vos, Domine Judex, sententialiter et diffinitive pronuntiari,
ac sic excommunicatum esse, necnon juramentum suum prae-
stitum temere violasse publice et solempniter nuntiari,
justitiamque in omnibus exhiberi ; praemissa proponit et petit
conjunctim et divisim etc.
Ad quam quidem petitionem, f acta contestatione, praemissis
negatis in hunc modum :
Ego Johannes le Boteller dico narrata prout narrantur
vera non esse, et ideo petita prout petuntur fieri non debere ;
Jurato hincinde de calumpnia et de veritate dicenda,
testibusque productis, admissis, juratis, et examinatis ; vide-
licet, Dominis Johanne de Hornese, seniore, Hugone de
Otringham, Thoma de Grymesbi, Ricardo de Killom, Johanne
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 131
de Benigholme : eorumque dictis de consensu partium earum-
dem publicatis : assignatoque triduo dictao parti rea3 ad
dicendum in testes et eonim dicta, et ad proponendum in
facto consistentia, videlicet, ad diem Jo vis vj Idus April
proxime futurum, et ad faciendum ulterius quod juris fuerit
et rationis.
Tenor attestationis testium productorum talis est :
Dominus Johannes de Hornese, vicarius perpetuus chori
ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis, etc.
Quo die partibus ut supra comparentibus dicta parte rea
nil proponente, ad sententiam procedimus in hunc modum.*
Clerici missi ad ordines.
xiiij. b. — Memorandum quod xiiij Kalendas Junii A.D. 1339.
m.cccmo tricesimo nono missi fuerunt [etc.]. 19 May.
Willelmus de Pokelington, Stephanus de Humbleton, Orders
Thomas Grys de Beverlaco, ad ordinem Accolitatus; 3Acolytes
Willelmus de Scorburgh, Eobertus de Rosse, ad ordi- Jp^Jn*
nem Diaconatus ;
Willelmus Binder, ad ordinem Presbiteratus.
Goldesburgh. Dareynes.'f
xiiij. 2nd ser. b. 4.— Memorandum quod iij Nonas Julii 1339.
anno Domini supradicto Magister Willelmus Dareynes, Before the J'
Rector ecclesise de Walkyngton, coram nobis Venerabilis causes™
Capituli Ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis Auditore Mr
causarum, personaliter comparuit; et fatetur se teneri of
Magistro Antonio de Goldesburgh, canonico et prebendario
prebendae altaris Sancti Jacobi in praefata ecclesia Sancti
Johannis in sex marcis sterlingorum pro travis ecclesiae et Master Antony
r ,. ... _. . of Goldsborough.
parocmae de Walkington de anno supradicto sibi venditis et canon of st.
liberatis, solvendis praedicto Masdstro Antonio vel suo certo
* ° . Order to pay on
procuratori apud Beverlacum ad festa Ascensioms Domimcae p^n of excom-
m ft ' • -rt • mumcation.
et Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistse proxime futura; ac
nos Auditor praedictus., confessionem ejusdem secuti, ipsum in
* Here this entry, having vexatiously roused our curiosity without satisfying
it, breaks off. The back of the page contains quite different matter, and the
next page is numbered viij. As the case appeared to turn on mal-administration
of the office of Butler to the Bedern, the omission of all details of the charges
and the evidence has deprived us of most interesting light on the domestic life
of the vicars choral.
t This entry is cancelled ; perhaps when the money was paid.
132
BEVEKLEY MINSTER
dictis sex marcis terminis praenotatis fideliter solvendis sub
poena excommunicationis, exnunc prout extunc per senten-
tiam praecepti in hiis scriptis condempnamus.
1339.
No day stated. '
W. Chapman
and Walter
Little of Cot-
tingham confess
debt of 11 marks
for thraves to
Richard of
Ottringham.
OtringJiam. Cotingham.
xiiij. 2nd ser. b. 5. — N"os Auditor causarum Venerabilis
Capituli ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis vos Willelmum
Chappman de Cotingham et Walterum dictum Lytel de
eadem, in undecim marcis sterlingorum pro travis parochiae
de Cotingham anno praesenti vobis venditis et liberatis :
solvendis Domino Ricardo de Otringham vel suo certo pro-
curatori citra f esta Purificationis Beatae Marias et Nativitatis
Beati Johannis Baptistae per unam septimanam proxime
futuram juxta confessionem vestram personalem et spon-
taneam, sub poena excommunicationis exnunc per sententiam
praecepti in hiis scriptis condempnamus.
1339.
14 July.
Marmaduke
Constable con-
fesses debt for
thraves of Holm
in Spaldingmore.
1339.
18 July.
Robert of Scor-
brough to pay
Richard of
Ottringham 30s.
within 8 days.
Nassington. Conestdble.
Memorandum quod ij Idus Julii, anno Domini supradicto *
fatetur se teneri Magistro Rogero de Nassington
pro travis parochiae de Holm in Spaldingmore de autumpno
jam instanti sibi venditis, solvendis ad festa Ascensionis
Dominicae et Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae proxime
futura. Ac nos Auditor condempnamus eum quod satisfaciat,
ut praedictum est, sub poena excommunicationis, exnunc
prout extunc, per sententiam praecepti in hiis scriptis.
xiiij. (2nd ser.) b. — Memorandum quod xv Kalendas
Augusti anno Domini supradicto, Robertus de Scorburgh
condempnatur Domino Ricardo de Otringham in triginta
solidis sterlingorum, juxta confessionem suam, solvendis infra
octo dies.
1339.
19 July.
John of Brun of
Beverley, shear-
man to pay W. of
Bredon,
Beverley Gram-
mar School
Master, 12d. on
15 Aug.
Memorandum quod xiiij Kalendas Augusti Johannes de
Brun de Beverlaco, cissor. condempnatur Willelmo de Bredon,
Rectori scolarum gramaticalium Beverlacensium in xij dena-
riis solvendis in festo Assumptionis Beatae Mariae.
* These blanks are caused by erasures. The marginal note shows that the
person in default was Marmaduke Constable ; cf. entry for 18 Aug., 1338.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 133
Guilfridus. Elghton.
xiiij. b. 7. — Memorandum quod v Idus August! A.D. supra- 1339.
dicto, Thomas Hode de Howden et Johannes de Holme, tan- T.
nator, de Beverlaco, coram nobis Auditor e causarum persona-
liter comparuerunt, et fatebantur se teneri Magistro Guil-
f rido de Croppo Sancti Petri in quinque marcis sterlingorum ^noughton to
pro travis ecclesiae de Elghton de autumpno jam instanti sibi StirideCro
venditis et liberatis, solvendis ad festa Ascensionis Dominicse
et Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae [as previous entries],
Otringham. Warrom.
[A like entry as to Eobert de Ey vaux de Thornthorp and Same day-
John Tabernarius de Fymer, for 4 marks for the thraves of
the church of Warrom, in the parish of Syxendale, due to
Eichard de Otringham.]
Clerici missi ad ordines.
xiiij. b. 8. — Memorandum quod die Mercurii in septimana 1339
quatuor temporum proxima ante festum Sancti Michaelis 21 sept.
anno Domini millesimo cccmo tricesimo nono. missi fuerunt
T , . ,...P ... . Orders.
ad ordines clerici mrrascripti, viz. :
Johannes de Hattfelde, Eobertus de Eyseburgh, Johannes 3 Deacons.
Goman, Thomas Gryse, Willelmus de Pokelington, et Wil-
lelmus Fourne, ad ordinem subdiaconatus :
Thomas Lax, Willelmus de Frysmerks et Johannes de
Pokelington, ad ordinem diaconatus :
Willelmus de Scorburgh et Petrus Pull de Hedon ad ordi-
nem presbiteratus.
[Richard de la Mare appointed Goldsmith of the Minster.']
cclj. b. 3. — Memorandum quod septimo die Aprilis, A.D. 1340.
millesimo cccmo quadragesimo, Magister. Willelmus de Cotum Mr
[MS. torn] Eicardi de la Mare comparuit in Capitulo [etc.]
et optulit eidem Capitulo litteras Magistri [MS. torn] ecclesige
Praepositi ; quarum tenor talis est : ef ley' °f 6
Eeverendis et discretis viris Yenerabili Capitulo [etc.]
Willelmus de la Mare, Praepositus ejusdem, Salutem in am-
plexibus Salvatoris.
Appointing
his brother
Richard de la
Mare to office of
Goldsmith with
corrody attached
vacant by death
of John de
Dated at
Cawood.
BEVERLEY MINST1
Cum [MS. torn] Aurif abri in dicta Ecclesia [etc.] , et cor-
rodium ejusdem, quod nuper obtinuit Johannes de [MS. torn]
defunctus, per ejus mortem vacans, et ad nostram spectans
collationem Dilecto fratri nostro Ricardo de la Mare [MS.
torn] cum suis juribus et pertinentiis universis contulimus
intuitu caritatis ;
Yos requirimus et rogamus, quatinus dictum Ricardum,
vel procuratorem suum ejus nomine, ad dictum officium et
ejus corrodium admittere velitis, ulteriusque circa eundem
facere et exequi, qu88 vobis incumbunt in hac parte. Valete.
Datis apud Cawode quinto die mensis Aprilis A.D. mille-
simo ccc quadragesimo.
Quibus inspectis et intellects, praefatum Capitulum Bever-
lacense eundem Ricardum de la Mare in personam ejus pro-
curatoris, ad praedictum officium Aurifabri et corrodium
ejusdem canonice admisit, et in corporalem possessionem
ejusdem secundum consuetudinem ejusdem ecclesiae induxit.
1347.
17 Nov.
Probate of Will
of Alice, widow
of Thomas,
nephew of the
chaplain of
Garten on the
Wold.
"Probatio Testamenti Alicise relictse.
A.D. millesimo cccmo quadragesimo.
xxiij. — xv Kalendas Decembris anno supradicto probatum
testamentum Aliciae, relictas Thomae, nepotis capellani de
Grarton in Wald, et administrationem * omnium bonorum dicti
defuncti executori concessam * fuit.
The Will dated
25 Sept. 1347.
My best beast
for my mortuary.
At my wake, 6d.
For wax to burn
round body 15d.
For assembly of
friends and gift
to poor on burial
6s. 8d.
John Rayner,
chaplain, my
son, executor.
Copia ejusdem.
In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, Amen. Ego
Alicia, relicta Thomas nepotis capellani de G-arton, die Martis
proximo ante f estum Sancti Michaelis, anno Domini millesimo
cccmo quadragesimo septimo, condo testamentum meum in
hunc modum.
Inprimis do lego melius animal meum pro mortuario meo.
Item, in vigiliis meis vjd. Item, in cera circa corpus meum
ardenda xvd. Item, die sepulturae meae in convocatione ami-
corum et in erogatione pauperum do lego vjs viijd. Ad istud
testamentum fideliter probandum constituo Johannem Reyner
* £fi-c. This is about the only instance of bad grammar in the book.
CHAPTER ACT BOOK. 135
filiura meum, capellanum, executorem ; et in testes Dominion
Rob er turn filium Johamiis, filii Rogeri de Garton, et Thomam
Prestfrend ejusdem villas. Item do lego omnimoda omnia
bona mea ubicunque fuerint inventa Johanni Reyner, capel-
lano.
Probatio Testamenti.
xxiij. 2.- — xiij Kalendas Decembris anno supradicto pro-
batum fuit testamentum Johannis de Bron, tannatoris, infra- 19 NOV.
Probate of will
SCriptum. of John of Broil,
In Dei nomine, Amen. Ego Johannes de Brona manens Beverie tanner.
in Beverlaco in Estegat, tanator (sic), die Lunae proximo win dated 29
post festum Omnium Sanctorum anno Domini millesimo cccmo
quadragesimo septimo condo testamentum meum in hunc
modum :
In primis lego et commendo animam meam Deo omni- soul to God and
potenti creatori meo, et corpus meum ad sepeliendum in JJJJf"^ J^;a
cymiterio ecclesiae Beati Johannis Beverlacensis. Beveriey.
Item, lego in cera circa corpus meum ardendum, convo- wax, etc., at
• a- j. -T_ j.- '. ., ,.. burial 10s.
catione amicorum, distributione pauperum et in omnibus alns TO parish chap-
rv i f . -,. r^ lain 6d., his
expensis circa corpus meum sepeliendum raciendis, xs. Item, cierkad.
lego capellano meo parochiali, vjd, et clerico suo, ijd.
Item, lesro fratribus praedicatoribus Beverlaci ad unam TO Friars
r . Preachers of
pitenciam pro amma mea, xrr. Beveriey for a
i • « . T i ^ pittance 12d.
Item, fabricae ecclesiae Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis, vjd. Fabric of s.
Item, lego Adae filio meo pro portione sua de bonis paternis To gon Adam Jn
et maternis perimplenda, ita quod nichil ultra rationem por- satisfaction of
r ' A . r portion in his
tionis praedictae petat nee calumpniet, xxs argenti, quas idem
recipiet de Rogero de Madersey de Hull, sutoris, prout db
idem alias fatebatur et manucepit de eo recipiendas. Item, of Mattersey
. ' of Hull ; also,
lesro eidem Ada8 meliorem supertunicam meam et i cape- his best over-
. . . J r coat and worst
tmm pejus. Item, lego Christianas uxori ejusdem Adas et hood; to his
Johannas filiae eorundem i lectum plumalem et \ var pro daughter Joan
\ • f a feather bed
eodem co-openendo. Item, praadictaa Johannas filiae ems- and fur to cover
' . J it ; to same Joan
dem Adae unam tunicam de mixtura. a tunic of mixed
Item lego Roberto filio meo pro portione sua de bonis TosonRobert
communibus paternis et maternis sibi perimplendis, ita quod for MS portion
nichil ultra rationem portionis praedictae petat nee calumpniet,
xls percipiendos ad certos dies prout ipse et executores mei
inde concordati sint. Item, eidem Roberto j par pannorum
lineorum meliorum et ij lintheamina.
136
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
To Stephen of
Withernwick,
Taylor, 12d.
A red tunic.
Residue after
payment of
debts and
legacies to
Stephen the
tailor to hire a
man to go on
pilgrimage to
the Holy Land for
possible.
Stephen Taylor
and son Adam,
executors, to
give security to
each item for
this till the
time of the first
passage to the
Holy Land.
Item lego Stephano de Wythorn Wyk dicto Tayliour pro
labore suo mihi impendendo nomine executoris xijd. Item
lego Agneti filise suae xijd.
Item lego Thomse filio Robert! de Wakeffeld j tunicam de
rubeo.
Totum autem residuum omnium bonorum meorum, ita quod
nichil remaneat indistincter legatum, isto testamento com-
pleto et omnibus ilJud concernentibus plenarie perimpletis, ac
debitis meis regulariter persolutis, lego praodictis Stephano le
tayliour et Adas filio meo pro uno nomine conducendo ad eun-
dum peregrination em ad Terrain Sanctam pro me secundum
dispositionem executorum meorum, prout dictum residuum
sup [p] lere valeat, quam citius commode potuerint ; et ad istam
executionem fideliter exequendum praedictum Stephanum
dictum Tayliour principalem, sine quo nichil vendatur nee
fiat, et praedictum Adam filium meum, meos f acio et con-
stituo executores; ita quod ipsi et omnibus con[s]cient, et
quod alter eorum alteri faciat securitatem de portione residui
in manibus eorum existente usque ad tempus primi passagii
ad Terram Sanctam ; qui Deum pras oculis habentes istud
testamentum fideliter exequantur.
In cujus rei testimonium huic testamento meo sigillurn
meum apposui.
Dato Beverlaci et acto die et anno supradictis.
EXTRACTS FROM ARCHBISHOP'S REGISTERS. 137
ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS.
EXTRACTS FROM REGISTERS OF THE ARCHBISHOPS
OF YORK, IN THE REGISTRY AT YORK.
I. — EXTRACTS FROM REGISTER OF ARCHBISHOP WICKWAINE,
CONSECRATED 19 SEPT. 1279.
Capitulum Beverlaci. De anno primo*
Pro Magistro W. de Gloucestria
f. 4 b. — W. miseracione divina etc. dilectis in Christo filiis 1279.
capitulo Beverlacensi, Salutem gratiam et benedictionem. coiiattoi?of Mr.
Quia prebendam que fuit magistri Johannis le Gras SucestLto
defuncti in ecclesia Beverlacensi vacantem contulimus dilecto Gras
nobis in Christo magistro Waltero de Gloucestria, capellano
nostro, intuitu caritatis, devotioni vestre mandamus, qua-
tinus ipsum W. in concanonicum et confratrem admittentes,
sibi seu procuratori suo stallum in choro et locum in capitulo
debite assignetis, quod vestrum est ulterius modo solito
exponentes. Valeatis. Dat. apud Scroby iij° Idus Novembris
A.D. m°c°c0 lx°x° nono et pontificatus nostri primo.
Pro eodem.
Mem. quod iij° idus Novembris A.D. m°c0c0lx°x0 nono collata
est prebenda que fuit magistri Johannis le Gras in ecclesia
Beverlacensi magistro Waltero de Gloucestria.
* Separate sections of the Registers of the Archbishops are usually set aside
for documents affecting the four chapters of their four collegiate churches or
minsters: York, Beverley, Ripon, and Southwell (Nottinghamshire, which was
until 1848 in the Diocese of York).
I am indebted to Mr. W. Brown, late of Arncliffe, novr of Northallerton,
Secretary of the Society, for these valuable historical documents.
VOL. II. L
133
BEVERLEY MINSTER
1280.
7 Nov.
Archbishop to
Justices Itinerant
at York.
Notice of appoint-
ment of Symon,
rector of St.
Saviour's and
Robert le Grant,
rector of S. Crux
STork, to receive
criminous clerks
at Beverley.
Pro clericis incarcerates petendis.
61 b. — Discretis viris sibi in Christo predilectis Dominis
J. de Wallibus ceterisque sociis ejus justiciariis itineranti-
bus apud Ebor. vel Beverlacum, W. miseratione divina etc.
Salutem in vero salutari. Noveritis quod nos dilectos nobis in
Christo Dominos Symonem, rectorem ecclesie S. Salvatoris,
decanum Christianitatis Ebor, et Robertum le Grant,
rectorem ecclesie S. Crucis de eadem ad petendum et
recipiendum coram vobis sen quibuscumque aliis justiciariis
apud Beverlacum, vel alibi in diocesi Ebor. itinerantibus,
clericos cujuscumque ordinis pro quocumque crimine inter-
ceptos, nostros constituimus attornatos, ut ipsi vel eorum
alter quern adesse contigerit, ipsum sup [p] leat officium vice
nostra; Ratum habituri et firmum, quicquid conjunctim vel
divisim fecerint in hac parte.
Dat. apud Scroby vij° Idus Novembris A.D. m°c0c0lx°x0
nono et pontificatus nostri primo.
1279.
29 Nov.
Archbishop to
Chapter enclosing
letter of his pre-
decessor on behalf
of the Vicar of
S. Martin's altar
and S. Mary's
chapel, who is
not allowed to
keep his own
books and
chalices, direct-
ing the Chapter
to put an end to
this horror.
Pro vicaria Beate Marie.
f. 61 b. — W. permissione etc. Capitulo Beverlacensi, vel
procurator! canonicorum ejusdem, Salutem cum Dei et nostra
benedictione. Litteram bone memorie predecessoris nostri in
hec verba : — W. etc. dilectis Cristo filiis capitulo Bever-
lacensi, Salutem cum Dei et nostra benedictione. A fide-
dignis frequenter audivimus et erubescimus in auditu, quod
exilia stipendia dilecti in Cristo filii, vicarii altaris Beati
Martini et capelle Beate Marie Virginis Beverlacensis in
compassionis spiritu adeo detractantur et etiam sibi sepius
differuntur quod suppreme premitur paupertate. Precepi-
mus etiam quod parochianorum protervitas ordinem et locum
psallentium in memorata capella in tantum impedit et per-
vertit, quod decus et honor ecclesiasticus vertitur in horrorem.
Dicitur etiam a plerisque quod idem vicarius ob hastutiam
quorumdam de parocnia liberam librorum vel calicis ad-
ministrationem aut etiam ornamentorum ipsius ecclesie
habere nequit, ut convenit, quoquomodo, propter quod
multo[to]ciens obsequium decidit divinorum. Ipsi etiam
parochiani presbiteris et adventiciis et advenis hujusmodi
ornamenta committunt, liberant sicut volunt, ea vicario
ARCHBISHOP WICKWAINE'S REGISTER. 139
viriliter denegando. Nisi hec igitur infra Natale Domini
per vos de capitulo ad propulsionem horroris congrue corri-
gantur, ea ob negligentiam vestrarn ad limam reformationis
post dictum terminum protinus assumemus. Bene valeatis.
Dat. apud Patrington iij° Kalendas Decembris, anno ponti-
ficatus nostri xij°.
Quia igitur premissis nondum aurem efficaciter inclinastis i pec.
vos iterato exhortamur sub continentia memorata, ut infra
quindecim dies, omni rejecta desidia, debite corrigantur, et
eidem vicario de stipendiis, que sibi retro sunt, similiter
satisfaciatis, ita quod post fluxum quindene vestram negli-
gentiam nos supplere non oporteat, quod nollemus. Valeatis.
Dat. apud Cawode Kalendis Decembris pontificatus nostri
anno primo.
Littera pro Capitulo Beverlacensi.
f . 4 b. and 62. — W. permissione etc. dilectis in Christo filiis 1279.
Abbatibus, prioribus, archidiaconis, decanis, presbiteris, et
ceteris per Ebor. diocesim constitutes, Salutem gratiam et
benedictionem.
Cum Beverlacensi capitulo cohercendi quoscumque infrin-
gentes seu perturbantes Beverlacensis ecclesie libertates sive
in aqua de Hulle sive alibi, et compellendi ad solutionem
travarum quas ipsa ecclesia percipere consuevit per censuram thrayes-
ecclesiasticam auctoritate nostra commiserimus potestatem,
vobis mandamus quatinus ipsos quos idem capitulum pro
violatione seu perturbatione hujusmodi libertatum vel solu-
tione travarum non f acta excommunicaverint, ' ad ipsius
capituli mandatum vos et singuli vestrum excommunicates
puplice nuncietis et tanquam excommunicates faciatis et
usque ad satisfactionem condignam ob omnibus artius evitari.
Presentibus post biennium minime valituris. Dat. apud
Cawode xix° Kalendas Januarii, A.D. m°cc°lxx° nono et pontifi-
catus nostri primo.
Pro Willelmo de Beverlaco, presbitero.
f. 4b and 62. — W. permissione etc. dilecto in Christo filio 1280.
W. de Beverlaco, presbitero nostre diocesis, Salutem etc. DispenBatira to
Attendentes quod per simplicitatem et juris exigentiam, JJ£ ?a^g taken
L2
140
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
128f
Feb. 10.
Direction to the
Chapter to pub-
lish excommuni-
cation of Eichard
son of Sabina,
.Robert Ingelberd,
and their accom-
plices for appeal-
ing to the Court
of Canterbury.
128$.
11 Feb.
Deum culpam extenuant, subdiaconatus, diaconatus
et presbiteratus ordines a non tuis episcopis, tui diocesani
licentia primitus non optenta, nee ejusdem ratificatione
hactenus subsecuta, illicite recepisti, et in eisdem incircum-
specte diutius ministrasti, nos tecum super hujusmodi irregu-
laritatis vitio quatenus ad diocesanum attinet misericorditer
dispensamus, ut ea non obstante libere valeas decetero in
dictis ordinibus ministrare. Licet ignorantia et simplicitas
supra dicta in foro contentioso tibi forsitan non prodesset, in
foro tamen penitentie ubi gratius agitur cum contritis tibi
sicut speramus in Domino mitius conferunt ad medelam.
Yale. Dat. apud North-Musham vj Kalendas Augusti anno
etc. nostri primo.
Capitulum Beverlaci de anno secundo.
f. 5. — W. permissione etc. dilectis in Christo filiis Capitulo
Beverlacensi seu procuratori ejusdem, Salutem etc.
Cum Ricardum filium Sabine, Robertum Ingelberd, om-
nesque complices eorundem consiliarios et fautores presertim
in appellatione per eos ad tuitionem Curie Cantuariensis
interposita et prosecuta contra libertates et privilegia ecclesie
nostre Ebor., cum communicantibus eisdem, aquam vel ignem
inpertiendo, in mercimoniis quibuscumque contrahendo, ob
offensam ipsorum manifestam, justitia excommunicaverimus
exigente, loca omnia nostre diocesis et provincie ad que
diverterint mercimonia excercendo quamdiu iidem excom-
municati inibi fuerint ecclesiastico nichilominus supponentes
interdicto, exceptis illis qui ad satisfactionem jam venerunt ;
Yobis mandamus quod ipsos sic excommunicates puplice
omnibus diebus dominicis et festivis denuncietis vice nostra,
donee ad gremium sancte matris ecclesie redeuntes absolu-
tionis beneficium optinere promeruerint in hac parte. Dat.
apud Burton iiij° Idus Februarii.
Mem. quod mandatum fuit Decano Beverlacensi in eadem
forma.
Capitulum Beverlacense de anno secundo.
Pro decano Christianitatis Beverlacensis.
f. 115. — W. permissione etc. dilecto in Cristo filio, magistro
Henrico de Yesteley, clerico, Salutem etc.
ARCHBISHOP WICKWAINE'S REGISTER.
De zelo sincere devotionis tue in Christo firmiter confi dentes,
te in decanum in Christianitate Beverlacensi tenore pre- 5e£eanfoIchriJ-'
sentium deputamus, sperantes quod per sanctam industriam
tuam f ructuosa fiet ad honorem altissimi lucrifactio aniniarum.
Et hoc universis et singulis subditis nostris et Christifidelibus
nunciamus. Dat. apud Burton iij Idus Februarii pontificatus
nostri anno secundo.
Capitulo Beverlacensi.
W. permissione etc. dilectis in Christo filiis, Capitulo
Beverlacensi^ seu procuratori ejusdem, Salutem etc. Archbishop' to
Cum Kicardum filium Sabine, Eobertum Ingelberd, omnesque
,. -. ._. _ ,. excommunication
complices eorundem, consmarios et iautores, presertim in Of those who
„ . . .... ~ . . . , appealed to the
appellatione per eos ad tuitionem curie Cantuariensis inter- court of canter-
, ., ..,.-,- bury in deroga-
posita et prosecuta, contra libertates et privilegia ecclesie tion of the rights
nostre Ebor., cum communicantibus eisdem aquam vel ignem
imperciendo in mercimoniis quibuscunque contrahendo ob
offensam ipsorum manifestam justitia excommunicaverimus
exigente loca omnia nostre diocesis et provincie ad que
diverterint mercimonia excercendo, quamdiu iidem excom-
municati inibi fuerint, ecclesiastico nichilomimus supponentes
interdicto, exceptis illis qui ad satisfactionem jam venerunt.
Vobis mandamus quod ipsos sic excommunicatos puplice
omnibus diebus divinis et festivis, denunciantes vice nostra,
donee ad gremium sancte matris ecclesie redeuntes absolu-
tionis beneficium optinere promeruerint in hac parte.
Dat. apud Burton iiij° Idus Februarii.
Memorandum quod mandatum fuit decano Beverlacensi
in eadem forma.
Pro excommunicatis de Beverlaco.
f. 5 and 115. — Suo decano Beverlacensi, Salutem etc. Quia 128-J.
fixo proposito ordinavimus, quod omnes illi de excommuni- DirectiJnatoDean
catis Beverlacensibus qui sunt in tertio gradu secundum quod ^mction^f as 1
alias toti communitati per karissimum clericum nostrum,
Magistrum Thomas de Grimeston, de gradibus fecimus
publicari, hac instante die dominica in passione suam injunctam regist(
penitentiam discalciati, nudatis capitibus, cum luminaribus
ordinatis in modo quern previdiinus, reverenter et humiliter
incohabunt ;
142
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
Tibi mandamus quatinus hoc eis hac die Annunciationis B.
Virginis puplice et solempniter nuncietis vice nostra ut in
ecclesia Beati Johannis Beverlacensis dicta die Dominica,
ante horam primam compareant, sicut predictum est, ad
devotam penitentiam preparati; alioquin eos omnes quorum
nomina inf erius conscribuntur in pristinam excommunicationis
sententiam statim intrudas et perjuros ac excommunicates
denuncies sicut prius.
Qua die Dominica eis de nostris commitivam et conductum
congruum transmittemus, ut certius sub limitato modo se
ante preparent et coaptent efc incedant. Et ecce nomina ad
hoc publice recitanda. Dat. apud Cawode x kal. Aprilis, ponti-
ficatus nostri anno secundo.
Et volumus quod mulieres suprascripte in principio pro-
cessionis et aciei disposite universes masculos antecedant, ita
quod incessus earundem secundum procacitatem et demerita
sua evidentius quocumque ierint distinguatur. Dat. etc.
1281.
Oct. 30.
Directions to
Kural Dean of
Beverley as to
Beverley peni-
tents of first
grade to march
barefooted, with-
out girdles, cape,
or hoods, from
Beverley to
Stamford Bridge.
Two priests,
through reve-
rence to their
order, to follow
behind in black
copes with
whipping rods in
their hands
declaring the
reason of the
penance.
Hie incipit annus tertius.
De penitentibus Beverlacensibus.
f. 5 and 115 b. — Suo decano Beverlacensi Salutem. Si
Johannes de G-rouvale, clericus, Petrus de Seton, Eicardus
de Bryniston, Robertas de Trescke, clericus, Ricardus Sesse,
Willelmus Cissor, Thomas le Buss, et Johannes le Buss,
f rater ejus, primo gradu penitentium constituti, nudis
pedibus in sola tunica absque cingulo ten a et capucio, singuli
cum singulis cereis competeiitibus in manibus accensis, hac
instanti die Dominica, in crastino Omnium Sanctorum, in
facie ecclesie B. Johannis de Beverlaco contriti se obtulerint
ad peragendum puplicam penitentiam quam eis injunximus
pro commissis, eos patienter suscipias ad eandem. Ita
videlicet quod ibi iter suum humiliter initiantes statim versus
Eboracum per villas de Burton, Wyhton, Hayton, et sic usque
ad Pontem Belli dirigere preparent gressus suos, quos peni-
tentes in forma quam premisimus usque ad fines jurisdictionis
tue, videlicet usque ad Burton, personaliter prosequeris.
Bogerum vero de Berniston et Petrum de Catefosse, pres-
biteros ejusdem gradus, quibus in reverentiam ordinis com-
patimur pio motu in capis clausis vel nigris cum superpelliciis,
stolis indutos, et cum virgis disciplinalibus in manibus pre-
ARCHBISHOP WICKWAINE'S REGISTER. 143
dictos penitentes usque ad ecclesiam B. Nicholai exponendo
causam in itinere, ob quam penitentes sic incedunt, insequi
volumus et mandamus. Et ibi occurret decanus noster Ebora- The Dean of
York to meet
censis et producet eos ad majorem ecclesiam, et que ulterius
incumbunt plenius consummabit, qui premuniatur de hora
veniendi ut eos preveniat tempestive. Ceterum quia ad partes
divertimus in proximo remotas, committimus tibi potestafcem,
ut quotquot primi gradus una cum predictis vice hac penitere
voluerunt, admittere valeas vice nostra, quodam die Omnium
Sanctorum solempniter puplices et proclames. Proviso quod
de hiis qui in secundo gradu sunt vel tertio, te nullatenus
intromittas. grade-
Nomina quidem penitentium sub sigillo tuo inclusa Decano
nostro Christianitatis Ebor. per predictos presbiteros trans-
mittas a quo certificari poteris, an omnes penitentiam com-
pleverint in hiis litteris comprehensis et aliquem famulum A servant to be
sent with them
deputare procures qui sequatur eos in via et videat an debite
peniteant et incedant. Senes si qui fuerint et debiles, ab
hujusmodi penitentia repellas penitus in presenti, ne peri-
culum de eis contingeret, quod nollemus. Margeriam de
Driffeud nostro arbitrio reservamus. Supersedeas igitur, Margery of Drif-
. ,., f . . field reserved for
nicnil attemptans contra earn, donee aliud receperis in the Archbishop's
, . own decision.
mandatis.
Dat. apud Cawode iij° Kalendas Novembris pontificatus
nostri anno tertio.
Pro burgensibus de Beverlaco.
39 b. — E. etc. vicecomiti Ebor., Salutem.
Cum in loquelis que fuerunt coram justiciariis ultimo
itinerantibus apud Beverlacum per diversa brevia nostra inter K;ff writ of
quosdam burgenses Beverlacenses et "W. archiepiscopum
Ebor., de eo quod ipse permittat eos habere communem
pasturam in Beverlaco, minus rite processum sit, ut dicitur, et
nos quibusdam certis de causis super premissis plenius cer-
tiorari, et si quid in loquelis predictis corrigendum fuerit
corrigi volentes, mandaverimus prefatis justiciariis quod re-
corda et processus predictarum loquelarum cum brevibus
originalibus et omnibus aliis adminiculis loquelas illas tan-
gentibus distincte et aperte sub sigillis suis nobis mittant ;
ita quod ea habeamus a die Pasche in unum mensem ubi-
cumque tune fuerimus in Anglia, ut in scriptis illis recordis
144
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
and the Sheriff
ordered to arrest
certain of the
till they have
made satisfaction
to holy church.
This writ was
sent to the Arch
bishop's bailiffs
who used it to
seize and impri-
son the burgesses
and prevent them
presenting their
suit in the
King's Court.
The King
directed their
The Sheriff is
now himself to
go to the Arch-
bishop and to
insist on the
release of Eoger
of Tickhill and
John of Louth
and surety for
Robert Ingelberd
and others is not
to be required.
et processibus inde fieri faciamus, quod de consilio nostro
secundum legem et consuetudinem regni nostri duxerimus
ordinandum, ac ad instanfciam predict! Archiepiscopi tibi
preceperimus quod quosdam burgenses de Beverlaco tanquam
excommunicatos et claves ecclesie contempnentes per corpora
sua secundum consuetudinem Anglie justities donee sancte
ecclesie tarn de contemptu quam de injuria ei illata ab eis
fuerit satisfactum; cujus precepti fecisti returnum ballivis
libertatis predicti Archiepiscopi de Beverlaco, qui illius
returni pretextu insidias ponunt predictis burgensibus ad
ipsos capiendos prisonando et quosdam eorum jam ceperunt
et in prisona detinent, quominus ipsi burgenses jus suum in
premissis in curia nostra prosequi possunt, sicut ex eorum
gravi querela accepimus. Unde ad rogatum eorum mandavi-
mus prefato archiepiscopo quod tibi et ballivis suis significet
quod captioni predictorum burgensium, qui non dum capti
sunt, supersedeatis, usque ad Parliamentum nostrum quod
erit post Pascha proximo futururn, et alios qui capti et im-
prisonati stint sub cautione rationabili mandet a prisona
deliberari, ita quod eos -jus suum in premissis libere et sine
impedimento interim prosequi permittat.
Tibi precepimus quod in propria persona tua ad prefatum
Archiepiscopum accedens, eum ex parte nostra moneas, et
inducas, quod id in forma quam ei mandavimus fieri faciat
sive fieri demandet, ita quod Rogerus de Tykehille et Johannes
de Luda, qui occasione predicta capti sunt, usque Parlia-
mentum predictum sub cautione rationabili a prisona de-
liberentur, et captioni Roberti Yngelberd, Ricardi filii Sabine,
P. filii W. Malharpin, R. de Barton et Roberti de Gumcestre
qui nondum capti sunt interim supersedeatur. Quod si idem
Archiepiscopus facere distulit, tu id fieri facias in predicta
forma, et predicto Archiepiscopo scire facias ex parte nostra
quod aliquos de fidelibus suis tune mittat ad curiam nostram
sufficienter instructos, ad faciendum et recipiendum quod
curia nostra consideraverit in premissis. Et habeas ibi etc.
Teste etc. apud Upaune xxiiij die Martis anno regni nostri
Same date.
The King to the
Archbishop to
Pro eodem.
f. 40. — E. Dei gratia etc. venerabili etc. Cum in loquelis
quse fuerunt coram Justiciariis ultimo itinerantibus apud
ARCHBISHOP WICKWAINE'S REGISTER. 145
Beverlacum per diversa (brevia) nostra inter quosdam bur-
genses Beverlacenses et vos de eo quod permittatis eos sheriff above-
habere communem pasturam in Beverlaco, minus rite pro-
cessum sit, ut dicitur, et nos quibusdam certis de causis super
premissis plenius certiorari, et si quid in loquelis predictis
corrigendum fuerit corrigi volentes, mandaverimus prefatis
justiciariis quod recorda et processus predictarum loque-
larum cum brevibus originalibus et omnibus aliis adminiculis
loquelas illas tangentibus distincte et aperte sub sigillis suis
nobis mittant, ita quod ea habeamus a die Pasche in unum
mensem, ubicumque tune fuerimus in Anglia, ut inspectis illis
recordis et processibus inde fieri faciamus quod de consilio
nostro secundum legern et consuetudinem regni nostri
duxerimus ordinandum, ac ad instantiam vestram nuper per
litteras nostras precepimus vicecomiti nostro Eboracensi
quod quosdam burgenses de Beverlaco tanquam excommuni-
catos et clave [m] ecclesie contempnentes per corpora sua
secundum consuetudinem Anglie justitiet donee sancte
ecclesie tarn de contemptu quam de in[ju]ria ei illata ab eis
fuerit satisfactum. Cujus mandati returnum ballivi libertatis
vestre de Beverlaco receperunt, et cujus pretextu ipsi
insidias ponunt predictis burgensibus adversariis vestris ad
ipsos capiendos et imprisonandos et quosdam eorum jam
ceperunt et in prisona detinent quominus ipsi burgenses jus
suum in premissis in curia nostra prosequi possunt, sicut ex
eorum gravi querela accepimus.
Vobis mandamus quod predictis vicecomiti nostro et ballivis
vestris significatis quod captioni K. Ingelberd, R. Sabine,
P. Malharpin, R. de Barton, et R. de Godmancestria, qui non
dum capti sunt, supersedeant, usque ad Parliamentum
nostrum quod erit post Pasca proxime futurum, Et Rogerum
de Tykehille et J. de Luda, qui occasione predicta capti sunt,
sub cautione rationabili interim deliberare mandetis, ut jus
suum prosequi possint in premissis. Et mittatis aliquos de
fidelibus nostris ad predictum Parliamentum ad faciendum et
recipiendum quod curia nostra consideraverit in premissis et
habeatis etc. T. etc.
f. 40. — Letters of protection from the King to Robert
Ingelberd, of Beverley, R. son of Sabina, and P. Malharpin. 14 March.
Apud Dunam, March 14, 9 Edward I. (1280-1).
146
BEVEKLEY MINSr
King to Sheriff
of Yorkshire,
on receiving
security from
Richard the
mercer and
Roger of Tickhill
to prosecute their
claim take
security for the
appearance of
Thomas of Etton
and W. of Skerne
for false impri-
sonment.
Pone.
Rex vicecomiti Ebor. Si Ricardus le Mercer et Rogerus de
Tychille (sic) fecerint te securum de clamio suo prosequendo,
tune pone per vadium et salvos plegios Thomam de Etton et
W. de Scheyren quod sint coram nobis a die Pasche in unum
mensem, ubicunque tune fuerimus in Anglia, ostensuri quare
prefatos R. et R. apud Beverlacum ceperunt et imprison-
averunt et alia enormia eis intulerunt ad grave dampnum
ipsorum R. et R. et contra pacem nostram. Et habeas ibi
nomina plegiorum et hoc breve. Teste etc.
1280.
4 June.
The King to the
Archbishop to
send up all
records touching
the dispute with
the burgesses as
to the pasture.
Pro Beverlaco.
f. 40 b. — E. Dei gratia etc. venerabiii in Christo patri etc.
Cumque nuper mandaverimus dilectis et fidelibus nostris
J. de Reygate, A. de Kirketon et A. de Walvingham,, quod
quia ex gravi querela Roberti Yngilbert, W. le Grom, R. filii
Symonis de Receby, R. de G-odmancestria, R. filii Petri de
Barton, J. de Keu et P. filii Jacobi de Beverlaco acceperimus,
quod in loquelis que fuerunt coram eis et sociis suis Justiciariis
ultimo itioerantibus apud Beverlacum per diversa brevia
inter ipsos Robertum et alios et quosdam alios comburgenses
suos Beverlacenses et vos, de eo, quod vos permitteretis
prefatos burgenses habere communiam pasture in Beverlaco,
minus rite processum est, nos quibusdam certis de causis
[etc. as in last down to] ubicumque tune essemus in Anglia.
Ac prefati justiciarii nostri ad diem ilium nobis mandassent
quod nullum predictarum loquelarum habuerunt recordum
seu processum, eo quod rotuli placitorum predictorum cum
brevibus originalibus et omnibus aliis adminiculis loquelas
illas tangentibus remanent penes vos.
Vbbis mandamus quod scrutatis rotulis predictis recorda et
processus predictarum loquelarum cum brevibus originalibus
et omnibus aliis adminiculis loquelas illas tangentibus distincte
et aperte sub sigillo vestro nobis mittatis et hoc breve, ita
quod ea habeamus a die S. Michaelis in xv dies ubicumque
tune fuerimus in Anglia, ut inspectis illis recordis et proces-
sibus inde fieri faciamus quod de consilio nostro secundum
legem et consuetudinem regni nostri duxerimus ordinandum.
Et omnimodas excommunicatiords et interdicti sententias si
ARCHBISHOP WICKWAINE'S REGISTER. 147
quas in personas burgensium Beverlacensium fulminare
f'eceritis omnino revocetis.
Bt vos ipsi sitis coram nobis ad prefatum terminum
justitiam in premissis recepturi.
Teste E,. de Hengham apud Westmonasterium iiij die Junii
anno regni nostri ix.
Prepositura de secundo anno.
Pro testamento R. de Qwarham.
f. 116. — W". permissione etc. dilectis in Christo filiis Pre- 1280.
posito Beverlaci, vel ejus vices gerentibus, Salutem etc. Ab ^p'rovost
Testamenta coram nobis vel nostris probata et nostri siedlli Wills Proved
before the Arch-
mummine acceptata non decet a subditis reprobari. nee apud bishop ought
x L ' not to be reproved
eos secundum constitutionem Legati in dubium devenire : by inferior courts
1 to the blackening
ne. si secus fieret, superiorum et subditorum reluctans et of the honour of
,..._- tne church.
discrepans dispositio nonestatem ecclesiasticam denisraret. Therefore admit
r. r. ' Wharram's will if
unde in negotio exhibitoris presentmm sen executorum sealed with my
. ° . seal as alleged.
Roberti de Qwarham, si testamentum ipsum et ejus pro-
bationem prius acceptaverimus, sicut dicitur, nostro super
hoc viso sigillo nolumus nee convenit dubitari, set fiat decens
unanimitas utrobique. Dat. apud Burton vij Id. Nov. anno
secundo.
Pro ministris de Beverlaco.
f. 116. — W. permissione efcc. dilectis filiis Preposito Beverlaci 1280.
et suis ministris in Bederua. Salutem etc. Dec. 2.
Abp. to Provost.
Sub exhortatione pietatis et paterna vobis injungimus et ^^JJjJ^Ji
mandamus quatinus ratione generalis interdicti nostri Bever- pen^s, and
lacensis, de corrediis, stipendiis et liberationibus ministris ministers of the
Bedern are paid
ecclesie debitis et consuetis nichil penitus subtrahatis. set notwithstanding
general interdict
nichilominus conipetenter et congrue fiant, sicut evitare bvme-
volueritis canonicam ultionem. Dat. apud Burton iiij0
Dec. etc.
The Provost to retake an escaped prisoner.
Preposito Salutem cum Dei et nostra benedictione. In 128-9-.
tarn execrabili excessu in Deum et sanctam suam (ecclesiam) In ^^5^'
et nos perniciose commisso equum est, fili karissime, quod de SSi* and
148 BEVERLEY MINSTER :
which has been excommunicatis nostris capiendis qui sunt de libertate vestra
committed, my ... ... IT,- ,' c\ >
orders should be quam pretenditis nostris lussibus obedientius pareatis. feet
more obediently 1 . J .
carried out. i quia confictam reverentiam, immo potms contemptum, in
cannot. restore . . ......
the prisoner you vestris reperimus, incarceratum quem repetitis restituere non
until i have audemus nisi vestra nobis preostensa libertate, quam, contra
security against _ . i i , •
the liberty you Deum sanctam suam ecclesiam et nos torsitan non nabetis,
claim, but which . . .. . _ 1
probably you do secuntatem providerimus oportunam. &t quia ad mandatum
not possess. .. A . . .,.. , . .
My prisoner nostrum quendam pridem cepistis qui quasi dissimulatione
allowed to escape -. -, . . . ...
from your prison custodum derisorie jam evasit, volumus pro nonore vestro et
capture at once, sub debito obediencie ut ipsum celeriter reintercipi faciatis;
that your6 coSt quod nullatenus omittatis. Attendimus enim quod fragilitas
does not condemn ,1-1 .L-I- T • -j -j. i
robbers. vestre liber tatis nujusmodi excommumcatos quicquid sit de
latronibus in curia vestra judicari vel corrigi non permittit.
Dat. apud Wilton iiij° Nonas Marcii anno secundo.
II. EXTEACTS FROM REGISTER OF ARCHBISHOP JOHN
KOMANUS.
1286. f. 69. — Kegistrum de capitulis Eboracensi, Beverlacensi
Suthwellensi ac Riponensi ac de capella.
Memorandum quod emanavit littera directa Roberto de
Langetoft, vicario Beverlacensi, in qua sibi committebatur
officium penitentiarii sub data apud Thorp vj Nonas Julii
(anno primo) et sub forma qua scribitur in jurisdictione de
Hextildesham.
Pro corrodio in Bederna Beverlacensi.
1286. f m 92 b. — Suo ballivo Beverlacensi, Salutem, gratiam et bene-
Abp. to MS bailiff dictionem. Quia corrodium nostrum de Bederna Beverlacensi
dkecting him to dilecto nobis Waltero, dicto le Boteler, pro nostro beneplacito
vost that he had contulimus sfratiose, volumus quod id Preposito Beverlacensi,
granted his ' \
corrodyinthe vel suo senescallo, ex parte nostra certmces, ut predicto
Minster to Walter r
the butler. Waltero de eodem corrodio pro tempore nostro nactenus et
decetero integraliter respondeat et satisfaciat, sicut nobis.
Yaleatis. Datis apud Wilton vj. Kalendas Octobris pontifi-
catus primo.
Order in similar terms to the Provost of Beverley dated
6 Ides of February in the first year of bishopric.
ARCHBISHOP ROMANIA'S REGISTER. 149
Citatio contra Magistrum R. de Scard' pro eo quod contraxit
contumaciam in visitations Capituli Beverlacensis.
f. 70. — J. permissione etc. dilecto commensali clerico nostro, 1286.
Magistro H. Sampson juris civilis professor!, Salutem gratiam Abp £ehis4'
et benedictionem. S&Sa?
Yisitantibus nobis nuper Capitulum Beverlacense, cui M^H- Sampson,
visitationem nostram ad certum diem premuniendo mandavi-
mus canonice dudum ante,, Magistrum R. de Scard [eburg]
canonicum Beverlacensem in non veniendo reperimus con-
tumacem, contra quern censuram ecclesiasticam non immerito
exercuisse potuimus, quam tamen mitius temporando distuli-
mus, favorabiliter deferentes penam, donee ipsa vocata &PPear-
deliberavimus de contumacia supradicta. Devotioni vestrae
igitur firmiter injungendo mandamus quod citetis peremptorie Jorhfe Sn-1*™0*
predictum magistrum R. in ecclesia Beverlacensi quam cita- tumacv'
tionem eidem notificare curetis personaliter vosmetipsi, quod
compareat coram nobis etc. de predicta satisfacturus con-
tumacia vel penam recepturus canonicam pro eadem. Citetis Also for certain
,. . . , j-i.-j-.Li articles affecting
etiain ipsum peremptorie quod predictis die et loco coram Mm found at the
. . -i-i ,. v T- • visitation.
nobis compareat super quibusdam articulis aliis ipsum ex
predicta visitatione nostra tangentibus sibi ex nostro officio
opponendis responsurus, facturus et recepturus quod justitia
suadebit. Quern vero terminum hac vice ita censuimus
moderandum ut animarum saluti in quantum juris ratio per-
mittit celeriter consulatur. Quod si impedierit sive occul- if prevented
" from access to
taverit quominus ad ipsum aditum habeatis, tune in aula him leave the
1 l ... summons in his
ipsius vel ante ostium portamve hospitii, in quo ipsum haiioronthe
,7. , . ». . r . door of his inn.
nospitan contigerit vel morari, seu in alns locis puplicis ; ita
quod non sit verishnile ipsum vel suos posse hec probabiliter
ignorare, hanc citationem puplice legatis et solempniter ex-
ponatis. Super hujusmodi autem executione mandati nos
citra diem certificetis predictum per vestras patentes litteras
que harum seriem representent. Bene valeatis. Dat. apud
Burton ij Non. Dec. pontificatus nostri anno primo.
Sequestrum contra Magistrum Tkomam de Munkegate et vij
clericos de Bederna recipientes sua stipendia.
J. permissione etc. dilectis in Christo filiis Capitulo nostro 1286.
Beverlacensi, vel procuratori generali ejusdem, Salutem, etc. Dec* 4-
150
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
Abp. to Chapter
or its Com-
missary-General.
In recent visita-
tion the Sacrist
and the Seven
Clerks who
receive daily
wages from the
Bedern were
absent and pro-
nounced con-
tumacious.
Sequestrate
whatever they
get in the
Minster.
Cum in visitatione nostra quam apud vos nuper exercuimus
Magistrum Thomam de Munkegate, Sacristam, et septem
clericos ecclesie Beverlacensis qui cotidiana stipendia nomine
beneficii de Bederna recipiunt propter eorundem absentiam,
qui visitari debuerant, pronunciaverimus exigente justitia
contumaces, devotioni vestre mandamus quatinus sequestretis
auctoritate nostra quicquid predicti Sacrista et clerici in
ecclesia vestra percipiunt, et sub arto custodiatis sequestro
donee iidem nobis de contumacia canonice satist'ecerint
supradicta. De sequestro autem hujusmodi nos certificari
curetis per vestras patentes litteras. Dat. ut supra.
1286.
Dec. 4.
Abp. to William
of Gloucester,
Canon of
Beverley, to
collect the fourth
levied on non-
residents from
the prebends of
Mr. Robert of
Scarborough,
Gilbert of S.
Leofard, and
Robert Fangfoss,
canons, and the
Sacrist, Chan-
cellor, Precentor,
and Seven Clerks
of theBeriell.
Ad levandam quartam non residentium in ecclesia Beverlacensi.
J. permissione etc. dilecto in Christo filio W. de Glovernia
canonico Beverlacensi, collectori quartse non residentium in
ecclesia Beverlacensi, Salutem, etc.
Devotioni vestre injungimus et. mandamus quatinus
quartam prebendarum Magistrorum Koberti de Scard',
Gilberti de Sancto Leofardo et Roberti de Famfos (sic) con-
canonicorum vestrorum, -SacristaB, Cancellarii, Precentoris,
necnon quartam portionum vij clericorum de Berefel faciatis
levari. De quibus nobis respondeatis cum fueritis requisiti.
Dat. ij Nonas Dec. ut supra.
Convocatio canonicorum Beverlacensium ad tractundum cum
Domino super negotiis ecclesie.
1286. J- permissione etc. dilectis filiis Capitulo Beverlacensi
Ab toeciia ter Salutem etc. Quia in visitatione nostra quam apud vos nuper
Gen"ra?convoca- exercuimus quedam ad utilltatem status ecclesie vestre ordi-
tion of the canons nanola conspeximus, que sine omnium fratrum vel majoris
rising out of the partis eorundem presentia emcaciter non poterunt expediri,
devotioni vestre mandamus quatinus singulos confratres
vestros convocare curetis, ita quod in capitulo vestro per-
sonaliter conveniant die Lune proxima post festum Inven-
tionis S. Crucis, tempestive, ad tractandum ibidem nobiscum
et faciendum in premissis quod communi commodo et honestati
ecclesie, communicato consilio, viderimus expedire. Quod
autem in hac parte feceritis nobis intimetis ad diem per
vestras litteras patentes. Dat. etc. ut supra.
to
ARCHBISHOP ROMANUS'S REGISTER. 151
Citation against Mr. Thomas de Munkegate, Sacrist of 1286.
the church of Beverley, for contumacy contracted in the
visitation of the said church, addressed to the procurator-
general of the chapter of Beverley. Same date.
Collation of Mr. William de Lincoln to the prebend vacant 1286
by the resignation of Mr. Eobert de la Ford. Dec- 29-
Scroby, 4 Kal. Jan., 1286, anno 1.
Visitatio prepositure Beverlacensis.
f. 92 b. — Dilecto in Christo Preposito Beverlacensi Salutem 1286.
etc. Quia in progressu diocesane visitationis nostre intendimus Abp ^Provost.
per Dei gratiam preposituram ipsam die Jovis proxima ante
festum Purifications Beate Marie in ecclesia parochiali de
North Burton personaliter visitare, et ea que ad recreationem on
animarum pertinent paternis affectibus exercere, Sto summon
Devotioni vestre tenore presentium injungimus et manda-
mus quatinus vos cum ministris vestris dictis die et loco
tempestive filiali promptitudine intersitis, nostra salubria to attend also
monita correctiones et injuncta debita et devota reverentia
recepturi. Citetis etiam peremptorie seu faciatis citari omnes
rectores vicarios et presbiteros parochialium ecclesiarum et
capellarum ac ceteros in eisdem ecclesiis et capellis quibus-
libet ministrantes ; necnon de singulia parochiis prepositure
ejusdem tres parochianos fidedignos, qui dictis die et loco
tempestive coram nobis compareant, hujusmodi visitationem
nostram devote et humiliter admissuri. exhortationes etiam
examinationes et correctiones debitas canonice subituri; nos
super hujus executione mandati citra predictam diem Jovis
fideliter et distincte per vestras patentes litteras que harum
seriem representent, certiores facientes.
Dat. apud Burton viij Idus Decembris pontificatus primo.
Sententia contra detentores trabarum ecclesie Beverlacensis.
f. 70 b. — Suo decano de Holdern[esse] Salutem etc. 1286
Prelatorum tepiditas subditos nonnuncquam excitat et Dec. 26.
. . ..... Abp. to Dean of
impellit quo promptius iura ecclesiastica subtrahunt et Hoidemess, to
.. . J . exhort the with-
decimas utriusque testamenti precepto debitas necnon alia holders of thr
,-,.-,.., . . to pay them ;
consueta, puta trabas, nonnullis ecclesiis ab antique assignatas
152
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
or else excom-
municate them.
128f
31 Jan.
Abp. to William
of Patrington to
collect a fourth
part of the in-
come of the non-
resident clergy
in the Provostry
and account for
it to the Arch-
bishop.
128f
March 17.
in eterne salutis dispendium solvere dampnabiliter contra-
dicunt.
Yolentes itaque nobis subjectis ecclesiis oportunis remediis
salubriter sub venire, devotioni tue firmiter injungendo man-
damus, quatinus moneas et sollicitis exhortationibus inducas
omnes tui decanatus, qui ad solutionem trabarum ecclesie
nostre Beverlacensis astringuntur, quod de arreragiis si que
f uerint ministris Capituli et Prepositi ecclesie ejusdem absque
more dispendio satisfaciant ut tenentur ; alioquin diebus
dominicis et aliis solempnibus et festivis per totum decanatum
tuum ipsos in majoris excommunicationis sententiam contra
trabarum detentores in ecclesia Beverlacensi annis singulis
puplicatam in genere denuncies incidisse ; Nos super hujus-
modi executione mandati certificans cum ex parte capituli vel
prepositi fueris requisitus. Datis Rypon. vij Kal. Jan. anno
primo.
Commissio ad colligendum quartam non residentium in
prepositura Beverlacensi.
f. 92 b. — J. permissione etc. dilecto in Christo filio Domino
Willelmo de Patrington, Salutem gratiam et benedictionem.
Ad colligendum et recipiendum quartam partem bene-
ficiorum beneficiatorurn non residentium in prepositura
Beverlacensi, tibi cum cohercionis canonice potestate corn-
mittimus vices nostras. De qua quarta parte te nemini
respondere volumus nisi nobis. Datis apud Burton ij
Kalendas Februarii pontificatus iiostri anno primo.
Et est memorandum quod ista commissio inveniatur sic.*
Willelmo de Patrington et Waltero de Kelk, Salutem,
gratiam et benedictionem.
De vestra etc. Ad colligendum etc. Yobis conjunctim et
divisim cum cohercionis etc Datis apud Burton v Idus
Marcii pontificatus nostri anno tertio.
128f
31 Jan.
The Abp. to Mr.
W. of Nottingham
and R. of
Bingham.
clerks in imme-
diate attendance
on him, to visit
all churches and
Commissio ad visitandum ecclesias et capellas prepositure.
f. 92b. — J. permissione etc. dilectis in Christo filiis Magistris
W. de Notingham et R. de Byham, clericis nostris familiaribus,
Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem.
* This is inserted out of its place as a precedent of a commission for the same
purpose in another form.
ARCHBISHOP EOMANUS'S EEGISTER.
153
De vestra fi deli indusfcria plenius confidentes ad visitandum
omnes et singulas ecclesias et capellas prepositure Beverla-
censis, et ad corrigendum per decretum et alias, que in
ornamentis, libris, ecclesiarum et cancellorum cooperturis,
cimiteriorum clausuris, et aliis quibuscumque contingentibus,
inveneritis corrigenda, vobis vices nostras committimus, cum
cohercionis canonice potestate. Sententias autem, quas rite
tuleritis in rebelles, ratas habebimus, easque faciemus, auctore
Domino, inviolabiliter observari.
Datis apud Burton ij Kalendas Februarii pontificatus
nostri anno primo.
Visitatio capituli Beverlacensis et cleri et populi prebendarum.
Mem. quod scribitur capitulo Beverlacensi quod dominus
visitabit illud die Lune proxima post festum B. Andree
Dec. 2, 1286, in forma qua scribitur capitulo Bypon. supra.
The visitation of Eipon (f. 69) 30 July, 1286, followed the
form of visitation of Siningthwaite in the archdeaconry of
York.
f. 71. — Collation and induction of Robert de Kirketon
deacon to a vicarage in the church of Beverley. Cawode.
6 ides of Sept.. 1287, anno 2.
Littera ad denunciandum aliquem excommunicatum.
f. 71 b. — Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis etc. J. per-
missione etc., Salutem in amplexibus Salvatoris.
Quoniam excommunicatorum nomina exped.it fore nota ne
gregem dominicam morbida contagione inficiant et fideles
commaculent labe sua, harum vobis serie innotescat quod nos
magistrum R, de Scard' canonicum Beverlacensem * majoris
excommunicationis sententia innodavimus propter ejusdem
contumaciaru manifestam, quern excommunicatum fecimus
puplice nunciari. Universitati vestre igitur supplicamus
attente, quatinus predictum magistrum R. a liminibus
ecclesie catholice sequestratum in omni genere communionis
preter illam que salutem suam respicit, tarn in judicio quam
* The contumacious canon was also deprived of his deanery of York.
f. 72.— 6 Kal. Oct. anno 2 (1287), order to the Chapter of York to choose a
new Dean in place of Mr. R. de Scardeburgh, late Dean, " ex pluribus causis
legitimis decanatu predicto auctoritate nostra <?ententialiter et diffinitive sit
privatus et amotus judicialiter."
VOL. II. M
chapels in the
Provostry and
correct all de-
fects in orna-
ments, books,
roofs of chancels
and churches,
churchyard,
enclosures, etc.
1287.
8 Sept.
1287.
10 Sept.
Abp. to sons of
Holy Mother
Church.
Notice of excom-
munication of
Mr. Robert of
Scarborough,
canon of
Beverley, for
contumacy.
Boycott him
accordingly
154
BEVEKLEY MINSTER:
extra judicium evitetis, donee spiritum liumilitatis amplexus
ad bonum obedientie redierit et caritati ecclesie se conferens
absolutionis beneficium promeruerit optinere. In cujus etc.
Datis apud Cawode iiij Idus Septembris anno gratie
septimo et pontificatus nostri secundo.
beneficedwas
Alia forma ad idem Episcopo London.
1287. Episcopo London. J. permissione etc. etc. Exigit maligna
mSa??etter excommunicatorum protervitas et ipsorum rebellio superba
shop ofLondon lequirit quod quanto magis ecclesiasticam disciplinani con-
tempnere molliuntur tanto acerbius eos medicinalis ecclesie
gladius prosequatur, et spiritum obedientie et respirationis,
quern timor Dei non ingerit, rubor saltern communionis
vetite, dum fidelibus non communicant, introducat. Hinc
est quod cum excommunicatorum nomina expediat fore nota
ne fideles inficiant apud quos veritate status tacita ut latitent
conversantur, paternitati vestre harum serie intimamus quod
nos magistrum E. de Scard' canonicum Beverlacensem propter
ejusdem manifestam contumaciam, majoris excommunicationis
sententia innodavimus justitia impellente, benevolentie vestre
supplicantes (71 -b) attente quatinus mutue vicissitudinis
obtentu predictum Eobertum per vestram civitatem et dio-
cesim sic excommunicatum velitis precipere puplicari et a
vestris subditis artius evitari, ne ejus virosa contagio gregem
vestram periculosa contaminet labe sua. Vestrum autem
beneplacitum nobis rescribi petimus super istis. Conservet
vos Altissimus per tempora feliciter successiva.
Dat. ut supra proximo.
f. 72.— 6 Kal. Oct. (1287). Order to the Chapter of
Beverley to induct Sir Boniface de Augusta, clerk of the
King of England, or his proctor Eobert de Themlby (sic),
under apostolic authority, into the canonry which belonged
to Mr. E. de Scardburgh.
Ad levandum quartam de prebenda que fuit Magistri R. de
Scard' in ecclesia Beverlacensi pro ijbus annis bis debitam.
1287.
Mr. w, Arch-
f. 72b. — Magistro W. archidiacono Ebor. Salutem, gratiam
et benedictioneni. Quartam partem proventuum prebende
que fuit Magistri E. de Scard' in ecclesia Beverlacensi ratione
non residentie ejusdem pro duobus annis nobis bis debitam
ARCHBISHOP ROMANIA'S REGISTER. 155
faciatis levari, nobisque respondeatis de ipsa, detentores pre- prebend lately
r . i • T held by Robert
dictorum proventuum ad somtionem quarte hujusmodi per of Scarborough,
ecclesiasticam censuram, si necesse fuerit, cohercendo. Bene
valeatis.
Dat. apud Cawode vj. Idus Decembris pont. nostri anno
secundo.
Collatio prebende que fuit Magistri Roberti de Famfos in ecclesia
Beverlacensi facta Magistro JR. de PyJcering.
f. 72b. — J. permissione etc. dilecto in Christo filio Magistro 128|-.
Eoberto de Pykering, clerico nostro, Salutem, gratiam et collation*!? Mr.
T->pnarh'r>fnrm^Yn Robert of
CtlOnem. Pickering to pre-
Mores et merita etc. ut supra est. Prebendam igitur que
fuit Magistri Roberti de Famfos in ecclesia nostra Beverla-
censi per mortem ejusdem vacantem, tibi cum suis juribus et Fane£oss-
pertinentiis universis confirmamus et assignamus, intuitu
caritatis.
Dat. apud Burton vj. Idus Martii, anno gratie m°cc° octo-
gesimo septimo, et pontificatus nostri tertio.
Installatio ejusdem.
J. permissione etc. dilectis in Christo filiis, Capitulo Bever- installation of
lacensr, Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem.
Quia prebenda que fuit Magistri E. de Famfos in ecclesia
nostra Beverlacensi per mortem ejusdem vacantem, dilecto
filio Magistro Eoberto de Pykering, clerico nostro, cum suis
juribus et pertinentiis universis contulimus intuitu caritatis,
devotioni vestre mandamus, quatinus ipsum in fratrem [et
concanonicum admittentes, ei stallum in choro et locum in
capitulo, ratione prebende huiusmodi debite assignetis, in
presentia ejusdem modo consueto quod vestrum est ulterius
exequentes].
Dat. ut supra proximo.
Citatio contra Canonicos et Prepositum Beverlacenses ad trac-
tandum super statu ecclesie Beverlacensis.
f . 73b. — J. permissione etc. dilecto in Christo filio procuratori 1288.
Capituli Beverlacensis, Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. Ab toSa'ter
Postquam visitationis officium in nostra Beverlacensi tion^wed^to
ecclesia exercuimus votivo connamine studuimus ecclesiam brin&backthe
M 2
156
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
church to its
ancient state as
settled by the
blessed fathers
my predecessors
now totally
subverted. Other
business was in
the way ; now I
am desirous to
proceed, so
summon a con-
vocation of
canons for Tues-
day after St.
Matthias' day
(1 March 0
1289.
9 April.
1289.
Sept. 16.
Abp. to James,
Cardinal Deacon
of S.Maria,
in Via Lata.
I am trying to
put into execu-
tion your father-
hood's letter on
behalf of Odo, the
son of the noble
Adenulf , son of
Sir Matthew de
Papa, for whom
the Pope had
made provision of
a prebend, though
this is the tenth
Papal provision in
my churches in
my episcopate,
but I am sure you
would not have
written had you
ipsam ad antiquum statum reducere, quern beati patres pre-
decessores nostri in ea sancta considerations posuerant et
salubriter statuerant observandum, cui profecto non sine
cordis amaritudine compatimur dum totaliter subversa
cernimus, que circa statum eundem primitive extiterant
stabilita. Set occupationes alie ex transverse multipliciter
occurrentes nostrum hactenus propositum sequestrarunt quo-
minus operose intendere potu[er]imus hiis premissis. Nunc
itaque mentem ad preconcepta eo promptius convertentes
quo ea efficacius dirigere zelo cupimus ampliori, devotioni tue
injungimus et mandamus quatinus cites peremptorie omnes et
singulos canonicos dicte ecclesie et Prepositum etiam ejusdein
ecclesie quod compareant coram nobis in capitulo ecclesie
memorate die Martis proxima post instans festum B. Mathie
Apostoli ad tractandum nobiscum super statu ecclesie et suo
etiam, quern communicato consilio intendimus, ministrante
Altissimo, ad honorem et profectum ecclesie debita sollicitudine
reparare. Super hujus autem executione mandati ad dictum
diem certifices per tuas patentes litteras harum continentes
tenorem.
Dat. apud Wylton vij. Kalendas Februarii (anno gratie
mcc° octogesimo octavo) .
f . 73 b. — Collation and induction of Mr. William of Haxeby,
clerk, to the prebend vacant by the death of Sir Adenulf.
Lanum. 5 Ides of April, 4th year.
Qnaliter ecclesia Beverlacensis fuit primo fitndata et prebende
in eadem fuerant constitute.
f. 74 b. — Yenerabili in Christo patri domino Jacobo, Dei
gratia Sancte Marie in Via Lata diacono cardinali, J. per-
missione ejusdem Ebor. etc., Salutem et cum votiva reverentia
jocunditatem continuam et honorem.
Paternitatis vestre litteras pro Oddono clerico, nato nobilis
viri Adenulfi [filii] quondam Domini Mathei de Papa de
Anagnia, cui dominus noster summus Pontifex in ecclesia
nostra Beverlacensi de canonicatu et prebenda providit,
reverenter recepimus et preces vestras pro ipso quantum ad
nos pertinuit, quamquam hec sit decima provisio in nostris
ecclesiis hiis diebus, prompte curavimus adimplere, quas non
interposuissetis, ut veraciter attendimus, si status prefate
ecclesie qui summum pontificem et vos latet omnino vestre
ARCHBISHOP ROMANICS REGISTER. 157
prudentie esset notus. Rex vero quidam Anglorum quondam known the state
sanctissimus in Dei honorem et venerationem B. Johannis
archiepiscopi et confessoris specialiter dictam fundavit
ecclesiam, eamque possessionibus quas optinet sua subven- of
tione dotavit, stabiliens inibi septem presbiteros perpetuos
missas celebrantes, qui, in esculentis coctis et poculentis
cotidianum victum recipientes, Deo dictoque confessori in
loco ipso sub personali residentia officiosissime deservirent.
Et ut in pacifico et quieto obsequio ecclesiastico Deo fa-
mularentur ibidem ab inquietatione seculari omnimoda segre-
gati, memoratus rex Deo devotissimus suprascriptam ecclesiam
tantis dotavit libertatibus, quod nullam habet quoad con- Settles that no
ditionem status in Anglia sibi parem. Super quibus dum
locum ipsum jure ordinario personaliter visitavimus cartam
prefati regis vidimus Anglica lingua conscriptum cujus charter6 wS
sententia intuentibus est piissima et horribilis profecto
presumentibus contra ipsam. Set, quod absit, non ponimus
os in celum dum hec vobis ostendimus, cum ad exonerationem
conscience dumtaxat ista cogamur vobis cum reverentia £"£ information
aperire, parati jugiter apostolicis vestrisque mandatis humiliter
obedire. Incolumitatem vestram conservet Altissimus tempori- and you-
bus diuturnis.
Dat. apud Wyltoii xvj. Kal. Octobris anno gratie m°cc°
octogesimo ix°.
Memorandum quod consimiles littere directe fuissent Dominis
B. Sancti Nicholai in Carcere Tulliano et P. Sancti Eustachii,
Diaconis Cardinalibus, per omnia, preter sub salutatione,
" Salutem et felicibus successibus jugiter habundare, et
salutern cum promptissimo pro viribus famulatu."
f. 74 b.- Commission to Mr. R. de Pikering, Official, to
offer to Mr. Henry de Carleton the prebend of Mr. R. de
Scard' lawfully vacant. Broddesworth 2 Nones of January
1289.
Citacio contra Canonicos, Preposition^ Sacristam, Precentorem et
Cancellarium ecclesie Beverlacensis ad residendum.
f. 75 b. — J. permissione etc. dilectis in Christo filiis Capitulo
ecclesie nostre Beverlacensis, Salutem, gratiam et bene- Ab ]
dictionem.
Cum in negotio ex officio nostro contra vos ex diu moto
158
BEVERLEY MINSTER, :
you in accord-
ance with the
primitive consti-
tution of the
church, some of
you have proved
contumacious
not coming or
setting up any
defence ; and
others appearing
by proxy only.
Wishing to
abstain from
coercion, order
you to summon
the Provost,
Masters Walter of
Gloucester,
William of Louth
and William of
Haxby, canons,
William of Ham-
ilton, Precentor,
Mr. Robert of
Byham, Chancel-
lor, and Thomas
of Mpnkgate,
Sacrist, to appear
in person on
Monday before
24 June next.
19 June.
super reformatione status ecclesie ejusdem Beverlacensis ac
personal! residentia, quam a vobis exigimus in eadem ecclesia,
sicut justum fuerit, faciendam, et maxime juxta statum ejus-
dem ecclesie primitivum facta et laudabili auctoritate regia ab
initio ordinatum, quosdam ex vobis post plures prefixiones seu
citationes a nobis precise et peremptorie sibi factas inveneri-
mus totaliter contumaces non solum in non veniendo set in
non proponendo nee exhibendo aliquid quod sibi forsaii
competere posset ad defensionem contra nostram exactionem
predictam; quosdamque alios ex vobis reperierimus contra
formam citationis seu prefixionis sibi facte per alium minus
legitime comparentes :
Nos nichilominus propter verba pacis, quam quidam ex vobis
nobis bona fide, sicut apparuit, obtulerunt, condescendere
ultra strictam rationem equitati volentes, et manum nostram
benigne adhuc a cohercionibus temperantes, vobis sub pena
canonice districtionis firmiter injungendo mandamus, quatinus
hec omnia omnibus canonicis et officiatis ejusdem ecclesie
Beverlacensis absentibus per litteras vestras fideliter inti-
mantes, Prepositum Beverlacensem, Magistros Walterum de
Grlovernia, Willelmum de Luda, Willelmum de Haxeby,
canonicos, Dominum W. de Hamelton, Precentorem, Magis-
trum K. de Byham, Cancellarium, et Magistrum Thomam de
Munkegate, Sacristam ejusdem ecclesie, ex parte vestra,
precise et peremptorie sine tarditate qualibet, citare curetis,
quod propter negotii vehementiam personaliter compareant
coram nobis in capitulo nostro ejusdem ecclesie Beverlacensis
die Lune proxima ante festum Nativitatis S. Johannis
Baptiste proximo futurum^ sub pena contumaciarum suarum
preteritarum, necnon et ulterius super toto negotio princi-
pal! pro reformatione status ejusdem ecclesie et residentia
personal! quam requirimus, inchoato, audituri, facturi et
recepturi quod juxta qualitatem et naturam negotii prelibati,
et secundum processum prehabitum in eodem justitia suadebit,
nisi pax et quies super premissis a vobis hactenus prelocuta
forsan fuerit justis consider ationibus unanimiter reformata.
Ad quos diem Lune et locum predictum ex habundanti con-
similiter peremptorie et personaliter tenore presentium vos
citamus.
Quid igitur super premissis omnibus et singulis, quantum
ad citationem pertinet faciendam, in forma predicta feceritis,
nos per litteras vestras patentes harum de verbo ad verbum
ARCHBISHOP ROMANIA'S REGISTER. 159
seriem continentes non tardetis pro loco et tempore reddere
certiores.
Dat. apud Burton ix. Kalendas Aprilis pontificatus nostri
anno quinto.
The case for residence stated*
Slip between ff. 75-76. — Canonic! tret prebendarii ecclesie
Beverlacensis tenentur de jure communi, necnon et ex
constitutione ordinatione et diffinitione bone memorie
Johannis nuper Ebor. archiepiscopi [Anglie] primatis, in
eadeni ecclesia personaliter residere ; quodque publicum est
et notorium, quod iidem canonici sic personaliter residere
consueverunt per tempora diuturna. Canonici qui nunc sunt
in ipsa ecclesia residere non curarunt neque in forma et
juxta exigentiam juris communis neque constitutionis sen
ordinationis predictarum. Licet de conse[nsu] unanimi
omnium et singulorum tune canonicorum dicte ecclesie ac ad
submissionem et requisitionem eorundem et eorum cuilibet
sancta ordinatio procedebat. Hiis non cont . . . canonici
ut pretenditur absentes et nullatenus residentes cotidianas
distributiones a Bederna viz. esculenta sua et poculenta non
modica pro suf . . . sua et suorum singulis diebus, etiam
quibus absentes fuerint tarn a dicta ecclesia quam villa
Beverlaci, nee aliquibus horis canonicis interfuerint in ecclesia
antedicta ex[egerunt] exigi procurarunt et fecerunt, ac per
multa retroacta tempora perceperunt, contra formam vim et
effectum tarn juris communis quam cujuslibet constitutionis
super eis edite . . . scienter ut videtur non absque contemptu
canonis ac statuentium et ordinantium jus et constitutions
predictas.
Quodque iidem canonici et prebendarii habentes prebendas
suas viz. . . . ecclesie Beverlacensis dudum parochialis sub-
sequenter in diversas prebendas et portiones divise, ac, ut
videtur, non modicam curam animarum obtinentes, parochi-
anosque viz. . . . eciam quamplures in remotis et locis valde
distantibus ab ecclesia Beverlacensi predicfca.
[A few words at the end of each line obliterated.]
* This seems to have been a draft for some proceeding of Archbishop
Neville's, as to which see post, p. 202 gey.
160
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
.1290.
24 April.
The Chapter are
directed in pur-
suance of a Papal
provision to in-
duct Aymo de
Carto, Papal
chaplain into the
prebend lately
resigned by Sir
B. de Augusta,
Bishop elect of
Sion.
Inductio prebende quondam Domini B. de Augusta in ecclesia
Beverlacensi per provisionem apostolicam.
f. 75 b. — Capitulo Beverlacensi, Salutem gratiam et bene-
dictionem. Cum sanctissimus pater, Dominus Nicolaus,
Papa quartus, canonicatum et prebendarn quos venerabilis
pater, Dominus B. Sedunensis electus, olim in Beverlacensi
ecclesia optinebat, nunc per resignationem ejusdem vacantes,
Aymoni de Carto, capellano suo, contulerit, sicut per litteras
apostolicas quas vobis inspiciendas mittimus, evidencius nobis
constat, Devotioni vestre injungendo mandamus quatinus
procurator! dicti Aymonis has nostras litteras deferenti
stallum in choro et locum in capitulo ejus nomine ratione
prebende hujusrnodi assignantes, quod vestrum est ulterius
exequamini debite in premissis. Yaleatis.
Datis in manerio nostro juxta Westmonasterium viij
Kalendas Maii pontificatus nostri anno quinto.
1290.
May8.
Agreement made
at the direction
of King Edward I.
to end the con-
troversies
between the Abp.
and Mr. Robert
of Scarborough
as to the deanery
and prebend of
Husthwaite in
York Minster, a
prebend in
Beverley Minster,
and the parish
church of
Adliugfleet, York
diocese.
Mr. R. of Scar-
borough resigns
all the benefices
mentioned.
The Abp. un-
willing that so
great a man
should be left
without adequate
Finalis concordia inter Dominum Archiepiscopum et Magistrum
R. de Scardeburg', quondam Decanum Eboracensem.
Noverint universi quod cum inter venerabilem patrem ac
dominum Johannem Dei gratia Ebor. archiepiscopum etc. et
Magistrum Kobertum de Scardeburgf , occasione quorundam
processuum et sententiarum quarundam habitorum et latarum
contra eundem Magistrum R. quoad decanatum Ebor. ecclesie,
et quoad prebendam de Hustwayt in eadem ecclesia, et
quoad quaudam prebendam in ecclesia Beverlacensi, et
quoad ecclesiam parochialem de Athelingflet Ebor. dioc.,
materia gravis discordie fuisset exorta, tandem, ad bene-
placitum magnifici principis Domini E. Dei gratia Regis
Anglie illustris, totius hujusmodi materia contentionis con-
quievit in hunc modum ; videlicet.
Quod remissis utrobique injuriis offensionibus ac malivo-
lentiis quibuscunque predictus Magister R. totum jus quod
habuit vel habere potuit in dignitate et beneficiis antedictis
mera et spontanea voluntate in manus dicti Domini Ebor.
pure et absolute totaliter resignavit.
Predictus vero Dominus Archiepiscopus nolens talem
ac tantum virum absque sustentatione congrua et com-
petenti aliquatenus desolatum relinqui, ad caritativam dicti
ARCHBISHOP ROMANUS'S REGISTER. 161
Domini Regis instantiam et voluntatem, concessit pro se et Sh°confent S
successoribus suis de consensu sui capituli quod perpetao
dicto Magistro E. solvet, eidem vel ejus certo procuratori
litteras acquietantie def erenti, quadringentas marcas sterling-
ornm in palatio dicti Domini archiepiscopi apud Ebor. ad York-
duos anni terminos, viz. in festo Natalis Domini cctas marcas,
et in festo Nativitatis B. Johannis Baptiste cctas marcas,
incipiente primo termino solutionis in festo Natalis Domini
proximo future : In super concessit ei quod omnia sequestra Also the fruits of
in decanatu et aliis beneficiis memoratis faciet relaxari et dnoe the King
-i L ,. n • M. • J • j. • T • i. j. u released them are
omnia bona et iructus que iuermt in predictis dignitate et to be paid to
beneficiis tempore quo Dominus Rex de manu sua ea dimisit
et que ad manus hominum dicti Magistri R. non devenerunt
eidem restitui faciet quantum in ipso est :
Et ut predicta omnia robur optineant firmitatis tarn pre-
dictus Dominus Ebor. quam predictus Magister R, huic scripto
tripartite, cujus una pars penes Dominum Regem, alia penes
Dominum Ebor., et tertia penes dictum Magistrum R. residebit,
sua una cum sigillo capituli Ebor. fecerunt apponi sigilla.
Actis et datis apud Westmonasterium viij Idus Maii anno
gratie etc. nonagesimo.
Ordinatio super residentia canonicorum in ecclesia Beverlacensi.
f. 76b. — In Dei nomine Amen. Tenore presentium pateat 1290.
ordinances' to
universis quod cum venerabilis pater Dominus Johannes Dei '
gratia etc. a canonicis ecclesie S. Johannis Beverlacensis
residentiam canonicam, tarn a jure communi quam precipue
ex constitutione seu ordinatione primaria Adelstani, dudum ^Sn^t the Abp*
Anglie regis illustris, notorie debitam, ex officio sue ordinarie Canons-
potestatis procedens contra eosdem repetitis vicibus exegisset,
et super hoc contra eosdem per diversas citationes, prefixiones
et assignationes dierum pluribus temporum curriculis diutius
processisset, prout in processu super hoc habito et sigillo
ejusdem patris signato plenius continetur, demum anno gratie
m°cc° nonagesimo xij Kalendas Julii, viz. die Martis proxima
ante festum B. Johannis Baptiste in capitulo ejusdem ecclesie
B. Johannis Beverlacensis coram patre predicto presente,
Magistri Johannes de Peninston, Walterus de Glovernia,
Robertus de Pikering, Willelmus de Lincolnia, Willelmus de
Haxeby et Henricus de Carleton, canonici ejusdem ecclesie B.
Johannis Beverlacensis, personaliter presentes ibidem, et post
162
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
Every Canon to
reside 24 weeks a
year continuously
or at intervals ;
the share of those
who are absent
in any year in
the corrody from
the Bedern and
oblations at the
altars and in the
church going to
those who reside ;
except the offer-
ings belonging
to the prebend
held by William
of Louth.
This accepted as
sufficient.
Any canon who
has resided 12
weeks may take
his proportionate
share of those
absent.
tractatum per viam pacis tune et alias habitum super negotio
supradicto, advertentes circumspectius fore amicabiliter rem
decidi quam sub discrimine litis future per ambigua ... a
[verti] processuum judicial! calculo terminari. Tandem concor-
diter et unanimiter communi consilio consesserunt expresse:
Quod omnes iidem canonici decetero in eadem ecclesia
B. J. B. residentiam per viginti quatuor septimanas in anno
continuam seu interpellatam per menses vel septimanas, ad
minus a festo S. Michaelis proximo futuro annis singulis
faciant personalem, ita quod portiones aliorum quos forsan
uno anno vel alio abesse contigerit quantum ad corrodium de
Bederna, et quicquid ad eosdem absentes quoad oblationes
altaribus vel in ecclesia noscitur pertinere, ceteris quos
residere contigerit singulis annis accrescant, portione venera-
bilis viri Magistri Willelmi de Luda, canonici ejusdem ecclesie,
quantum ad oblationes ejusdem ecclesie canonicatui quern
optinet deputata dumtaxat excepta, corrodium tamen spectans
ad prebendam suam si ipsum vel alium de successoribus suis
non contigerit residere, ceteris residentibus accrescat. Quod
si eodem Magistro Willelmo, vel aliquo de successoribus suis
in eadem prebenda, f orsitan residente, aliquos de aliis canonicis
non contigerit residere, sibi vel alii de successoribus suis, ut
parilitas hinc inde servetur, de oblationibus spectantibus ad
absentes omnino nicliil accrescat.
Idem vero pater predictus versa vice eorundem canoni-
corum humilitatem devotionem et bonam fidem attendens
oblatam sibi residentiam hujusmodi, ad quam ipsos et omnes
successores suos inprebendis, quas inpresentiarum optinent,
necnon et canonicum prebendarium altaris B. Martini in
ecclesia Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis et ejus successores in
prebenda quam optinet in presenti, de consensu unanimi et
expresso omnium dictorum sex canonicorum totaliter in forma
predicta astringi voluit ordinabiliter et decrevit, salvo jure
ordinarie potestatis, benigne admisit, ad devotam ipsorum
instantiam favorabiliter concedens eisdem quod cum aliqui
eorundem canonicorum residentiam per duodecim septimanas
in ecclesia predicta peregerint personalem, deductionem pro
portionibus aliorum non residentium quoad corrodium et obla-
tiones pro rata tanti temporis superius designatam sine
calumpnia qualibet protinus facere valeant, et illas unacum
suis propriis percipere portiones. Ita tainen quod idem
canonici non minus teneantur ad residentiam aliarum duo-
ARCHBISHOP ROMANICS REGISTER. 163
decim septimanarum anni plene et fideliter adimplendam
nisi justum impedimentum occurrat, super quo capitulo
Beverlacensi legitime fides fiat.
Statum vero Domini Petri Prepositi Beverlacensis et The question of
the Provost,
successorum suorum in prepositura eadem, quantum ad Precentor,
n , . r .. Sacrist, Chan-
quedam que commodum ipsorum et utihtatem eiusdem ceiior and seven
T.^T-,. . ,. . clerks of the
ecclesie ±>. Jonanms respicere dmoscuntur, ac insuper Berfeii reserved.
Precentoris, Sacriste, Cancellarii et septem clericorum de
Berefeld' ejusdem ecclesie idem pater ordinationi sue de con-
silio canonicorum ejusdem ecclesie usque in aliud tempus magis
congruum faciende ex certis considerationibus reservavit.
In quorum omnium testimonium atque robur sigillum Domini
Archiepiscopi ac sigillum Capituli ecclesie predicte Bever-
lacensis presentibus per modum cirograffi confectis apposita
sunt hinc inde. Actis et datis anno gratie die et loco
predictis.
Citatio contra Prepositum, Sacristam, Cancellarium et
Precentorum ac septem Clericos.
76 b. — Capitulo Beverlacensi Salutem gratiam et bene- 1290.
dictionem. Chapt™directed
Cum in negotio ex officio nostro contra vos ex diu moto
super reformatione status ecclesie Beverlacensis ac personali
residentia quam a vobis exegimus in eadem ecclesia, sicut
justum fuerit faciendam, pax prout nostis ad Dei et Beati reSSe1^- °f
Johannis laudem et ipsius ecclesie utilitatem fuerit reformata, clsl?dl
ac statum Domini Petri Prepositi Beverlacensis et succes-
sorum suorum in prepositura eadem, quantum ad quedam
que commodum ipsorum et utilitatem ipsius ecclesie Be-
verlacensis respicere dignoscuntur, ac insuper Precentoris,
Sacriste, Cancellarii et septem clericorum de Berefeld',
ordinationi nostre de consilio vestro usque in aliud tempus
magis congruum ex certis considerationibus reservaveri-
mus faciende, vobis sub pena canonice districtionis firmiter
injungendo mandamus, quatinus memoratos Prepositum
[Precentorem] Sacristam, Cancellarium et septem clericos
de Beref eld' precise et peremptorie citare curetis quod propter
negotii vehementiam statum contingentis eorundem persona-
liter compareant coram nobis in capitulo nostro ecclesie
Beverlacensis die Lune proxima ante instans festum Beati
Michaelis super reformatione status ejusdem ecclesie et
residentia personali quam requirimus ab eisdem, ordinationem
nostram audituri, et ulterius facturi et recepturi juxta quali-
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
1290.
16 July.
Abp. appoints
Proctors to sell
the thraves
belonging to Mr.
Henry of
Carlton's prebend
specially granted
to the Abp.
1290.
31 July.
Mr. William of
Lincoln, residing
with the Abp., to
Minster.
tatem et naturam negotii contra ipsos hactenus inchoati quod
justitia sua debit.
Quid igitur super premissis omnibus et singuiis quantum
ad citationem pertinet faciendam in forma predicta feceritis,
nos per vestras patentes litteras harum de verbo ad verbum
seriem continentes non tardetis pro loco et tempore reddere
certiores.
Dat. apud Burton x Kalendas Julii pontificatus vto.
Procuratorium ad vendendum trabas prebende Magistri H. de
Carleton in ecclesia Beverlacensi.
f. 77. — Noverint universi quod nos J. permissione etc.
dilectos nobis in Christo W. de Jarewelle, Decanum nostrum
Beverlacensem, et Eobertum de Langetoft, presbiterunr, ad
vendendum trabas ad prebend am Magistri H. de Carleton in
ecclesia Beverlacensi spectantes, que ad nos pertinent ex
privilegio nobis concesso, nostros procuratores facimus et
constituimus per presentes, quibus sigillum nostrum appendi
fecimus in testimonium premissorum.
Datis apud Bridlington xvij kalendas Augusti anno gratie
mcc° nonagesimo et pontificatus quinto.
Quod Magister W. de Lincolnia residens juxta latus domini
percipiat integraliter fructus et proventus prebende sue.
Capitulo nostro Beverlacensi Salutem gratiam et benedic-
tionem.
Cum personaliter residentes in collegiatis ecclesiis aliosque
confratres de prelatorum precepto ecclesiarum negotiis alibi
utiliter insistentes et illos presertim qui prelatorum assistunt
lateribus jura non immerito parificent, ac dilectus filius
Magister W. de Lincolnia vester concanonicus pro nostris et
ecclesie nostre negotiis jam ad Curiam de nostro speciali
precepto transtulerit se Komananx, devotioni vestre injungimus
et mandamus quatinus prefato Magistro W. vestro con-
canonico de prebenda sua ac omnibus aliis ad ipsam pre-
bendam spectantibus secundum quod ea percepit hactenus
absque contradictione et diminutione qualibet faciatis inte-
graliter responderi.
Dat. Eypon ij Kalendas Augusti.
f. 77. — Oblation of the prebend of Mr. William de Luda,
then vacant, to Bartholomew de Ferent' (? Ferentino) or any
ARCHBISHOP ROMANUS'S REGISTER.
other proctor of Sir Oddo, son of the noble man Adenulf,
son of the late Sir Matthew de Papa of Anagni, canon of
Beverley.
Pro provisione de dignitate personatu vel officio in ecclesia
Beverlacensi Domino Aymoni de Quarto facia.
J. permissione etc. dilectis in Christo filiis Preposito et 1290.
Capitulo ac singulis canonicis ecclesie nostre Beverlacensis TheprovoJfand
Salutem etc. Mandatum apostolicum et executorum a sede JJcSry outected
apostolica deputatorum quod super provisione facienda . . . fav0airPo? Aym0In
Domino Aymoni de Quarto de personatu dignitate vel officio de Quarto-
in dicta ecclesia Beverlacensi cum vacaverit et reservatione
facta recepimus per Antonium S. . . . procuratorem dicti
Aymonis vobis mittimus inspiciendum et omnia contenta in
ipso vobis juxta formam nobis injunctam notificamus expresse.
Bene valeatis. Dat. apud Suwelle ix Kalendas Septembris, Dated at south-
. ; well, Notts.
pont. nostri anno quinto.
f. 77b. — Collation and induction of Charles of Beaumont, 1290.
clerk, at the request of Queen Eleanor, to whom he was related 30 Aug-
in blood (cui in consanguinitatis linea attinere dignosceris) to
the prebend, late held by Mr. William de Luda, elect of Ely.
Lanum iij Kal. Sept. 1290, anno vto.
Pro primis fructibus prebende Domini Caroli de Bello monte
in ecclesia Beverlacensi.
J. permissione etc. Capitulo Beverlacensi Salutem gratiam 1290.
et benedictionem. AbP.toPchapter.
Johanni de Lokington, vicario ecclesie vestre, quern ad colli-
gendum et percipiendum omnes fructus et proventus prebende answers fbrthe
Domini Karoli de Bellomonte isto anno ad fabricam ecclesie
nostre ex privilegio indulto spectantes specialiter deputamus,
faciatis integre sicut convenit responderi. Yaleatis.
Dat. apud Burton ij Kalendas Octobris pontificatus nostri gbSo? the*0 the
anno Vto. Minster.
Super hoc scribitur Preposito vel ejus locum tenenti quod The like to tbe
faciant sibi responderi. Provost.
BEVERLEY MINSTER, :
1290.
8 Nov.
Ordinance on
residence of the
members of the
minster.
Grieved at the
default of the
canons and other
officers and clerks
as regards resi-
dence, which has
fallen away from
common law and
especially from
the original
foundation of
King Athelstan.
At length, with
the canons'
consent, we have
revived the
reasonable resi-
dence of Canons
of 24 weeks a
year..
Reserving the
question of the
Provost, Pre-
centor, Sacrist,
Chancellor, and
seven clerics of
the Barfell to
Monday after
Michaelmas.
Ordinatio* super residentia canonicorum afficiatorum et vij
clericorum de Berefeld3 in ecclesia Beverlacensi.
f. 78. — Universis ad quos pervenerit notitia script!
presentis Johannes, etc., Salutem in auctore salutis.
Cum nos nuper dolentes et plangentes defectum et statum
moderni temporis canonicorum et aliorum officialium et cleri-
corum ecclesie Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis quantum ad resi-
dentiam canonicam tarn a jure communi quam precipue ex
constitutione sen ordinatione primaria Adelstani quondam
Anglie regis illustris fundatoris ecclesie predicte Sancti
Johannis notorie debitam, que per multa retro tempora
per inertiam seu incuriam tarn superiorum quam inferiorum
in desuetudinem deviam abiit et recessit, eosdem cano-
nicos ecclesie prelibate Sancti Johannis, vocatis vocandis
et diligenter auditis de piano que faciebant ad negotium
universis.
Demum de eorundem canonicorum expresso consensu per
ordinationem nostram in capitulo Beverlacensi ex officio nostro
factam ad observantiam residentie rationabilis per viginti
quatuor septimanas sub ^certa forma annis singulis faciende
temporato continuitatis rigore reduxerimus equanimiter
redivivam, prout in instrumento super hoc confecto ac sigillo
nostro et sigillo capituli ejusdem ecclesie Beverlacensis con-
singiiato plenius et expressius continetur. Subsequenter ad
reformationem status Prepositi, Precentoris, Sacriste, Cancel-
larii et septem clericorum de Berefeld' ejusdem ecclesie
Beverlacensis quantum ad residentiam mores et alia secundum
pristinam consuetudinem contingentia statum ipsorum similiter
ex ofiicio nostro ad salutem ammarum suarum fideliter labor-
antes, ac juxta naturam et qualitatem negotii contra ipsos
hactenus incohati, pro quiete ipsorum, ad honorem Dei, et
consummationem negotii procedere intendentes, ipsos Prepo-
situm, Precentorem, Sacristam, Cancellarium et memoratos
septem clericos de Berefeld', coram nobis per decretum et
citationes legitimas in capitulo nostro Beverlacensi ad diem
(Sept. 25) Lune proximam ante festum B. Michaelis proximo
preteritum peremptorie fecimus evocari, ordinationem nostram
super ipsorum residentia et aliis supradictis cum librando
moderamine faciendam, sub debito obedientie audituros et
pariter suscepturos.
* The first part of this is printed from the Chapter Act Book. vol. i. p. 190.
ARCHBISHOP ROMANIA'S REGISTER. 167
Quibus die et loco predictis Preposito, Sacrista, Cancellario,
et quatuor clericis de Beref eld', viz., Magistro Johanne de
Kancia, Eoberto de Crachalle, Petro de Eudby, et Eoberto de
Cruce, coram nobis per se personaliter constitutis, ac Osberto
de Spaldington per Eicardum dictum Laurance, et Willelmo
Dandewe per Johannem de Lokyngtona, procurators suos Exempt the
legitime constitutes comparentibus, coram nobis die et loco the Berfeii, who
predictis, nullo pro septimo clerico eisdem die et loco coram because Mseai
i . T . T . -I f~\ • • ' ^ portion had been
nobis aliqualiter comparente ; pro eo, quod Uanonici ejusdem long ago assigned
ecclesie una voce unanimiter asserebant prefatum Sacristam
ipso facto sibi percipere totum corrodium quod septimo clerico
pro jure suo assignatum fuerat ab antique. lidem Sacrista,
Cancellarius et prenominat iquatuor clerici de Berefeld' sicut
dictum est personaliter per se presentes ac Eicardus dictus
Laurance et Johannes de Lokyngtona, procuratores, ut pre-
dicitur Osberti de Spaldyngton et W. Dandewe clericorum
de Beref eld tune absentium, et pref atus Cancellarius procurator
legitimus Precentoris predicti, quasi uno ore unanimiter et
expresse, consilio insuper et assensu dictorum canonicorum et
Prepositi concurrente, se secundum bonam fidem et ordixia- And subjected
tionem primariam de statu eorundem antiquitus observatam
supposuerunt et subjecerunt omni ordinationi seu constitu- °rdmance'
tioni nostre, quam super exacta residentia ab eisdem et re-
formatione morum suorum ac aliis contingentibus statum
suum ex deliberato consilio ad honorem Dei et salutem
animarum suarum decernere seu facere aut pronunciare
vellemus ; promittentes insuper bona fide quod quicquid super
hujusmodi residentia et aliis supradictis decerneremus vel
faceremus seu pronunciaremus per ordinationem nostram
exinde faciendum perpetuis temporibus pro se et suis succes-
soribus in eadem ecclesia sine contradictione et reclamatione
qualibet ratum et firmum habebunt. JNos autem ipsorum
devotionem, humilitatem, bonam fidem et obedientiam atten-
dentes et ideo cum ipsis mitius atque maturius agere cupientes,
eisdem Sacriste, Cancellario tarn pro se quam pro Precentore
jam dicto, et prenominatis quatuor clericis de Berefeld' pre-
sentibus et prefatis aliorum procuratoribus in personis
dominorum suorum predictorum clericorum de Beref eld' tune
absentium, de expresso consensu omnium eorundem, hunc Assigned for the
. ordinance.
instantem diem Mercurii proximum ante festum Sancti
Martini in hyeme pro certo termino peremptorio et precise ad
audiendum et pariter suscipiendum ordinationem nostram
168
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
8 Nov.
The Precentor,
Sacrist, Chan-
cellor, and six
clerks of the
Barfell, orderei
to be always
resident.
super omnibus suspradictis, et pro plenaria consummatione
negotii, sive venerint sive non, finaliter duxerimus ordinan-
dum. Cum igitur super toto processu predicto precedentibus
diebus diversis prout nobis vacabat et fieri potuit, expedite,
nobis hoc instanti die Mercurii predicto prenominatis sicut
predicitur assingnato, in hoc capitalo ecclesie Beverlacensis
pro tribunali sedentibus ad plenum et legitime constet,
recitato in primis coram nobis et aliis toto processu pre-
dicto in forma superius desingnata ac (f. 78 b.) Canonicis,
Precentore, Sacrista, Cancellario, Preposito et aliis cleri-
cos de Berefeld; sufficient er comparentibus, ac suas volun-
tatem, subjectionem, suppositionem, promissionem et om-
nem consensum suum laudantibus et expresse facientibus
iterate, et renunciato expresse omnibus si que fieri pos-
sent appellationibus, pronunciationibus, exceptionibus, de-
fensionibus, privileges, indulgentiis, libertatibus ac omnibus
impetratis, seu si que possent futuris temporibus impetrari,
et insuper per adjectionem vehementer apud nos instantibus
cum effectu, quod ad decretum seu ordinationem vel declara-
tionem seu provisionem, constitutionem seu pronunciationem
nostram super residentia et statu predictorum Precentoris^
Sacriste, Cancellarii_, Prepositi et aliorum septem clericorum
de Berefeld' sicut melius viderimus expedire protinus proce-
damus.
Nos in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti funda-
tionem hujus ecclesie Beati Johannis Beverlacensis pri-
mariam attendentes, ac ordinationem, precepta et voluntatem
Deo devotorum principum similiter advertentes ac cartas,
litteras et instrumenta libertatum hujus ecclesie, quorum
aliquorum copiam habemus ad manus singnanter seriosius
revolventes, ac super omnia ad statum primitivum hujus
ecclesie ac aliorum officialium et septem clericorum predic-
torum ex officii nostri libramine debitum respectum habentes,
Canonicorum et Prepositi hujus ecclesie ac aliorum commu-
nicato consilio peritorum, providemus, ordinainus, declaramus,
decernimus. promulgamus, pronunciamus et etiam puplicamus,
quod omnesprenominati Precentor, Sacrista, Cancellarius etalii
clerici de Berefeld' ejusdem ecclesie,, nunc numero sex, qui coti-
dianam in victualibus et aliis necessariis exhibitionem et susten-
tationem continuam pro suis servitiis percipiuntab eadem, versa
vice pro officii sui debito cotidianam et continuam residentiam
faciant in eadem circa officiationem et exhibitionem servitii
ARCHBISHOP ROMANTTS'S REGISTER. 169
sui diebus et noctibus in eadem ecclesia facturi de cetero,
quod a predecessoribus eorundem fieri consuevit ab antique.
Salva tamen nobis tantummodo [et successoribus nostris]
potestate [sicut nobis de jure nunc incumbentibus] Sacriste,
Cancellario et sex clericis de Berefeld' nunc in Capitulo de
Beverlaco presentibus ad tempus dispensationis gratiam ex-
hibendi prout nobis visum fuerit expedire, onera et grava-
mina, si apareant ad tempus, largius vel recisius relaxandi,
de septimo clerico, qui deficit, et ipsius corrodio ordinandi,
contumacias preteritas multorum de predictis debita pena
plectendi, ac circa omnia et singula supradicta declarandi,
exequendi et faciendi, quod ad honorem Dei et Beati
Johannis ac aliorum sanctorum omnium, necnon ad salutem
animarum suarum quotiens expedire viderimus visum nobis
fuerit oportunum. Statum vero Domini Petri, Prepositi
Beverlacensis, et successorum suorum in prepositura eadem,
quantum* ad quedam que comodum ipsorum et utilitatem
ejusdem ecclesie Beati Johannis Beverlacensis respicere
dinoscuntur usque in aliud tempus magis congruum
facienda, ex certis considerationibus reservamus. Et quia
memorati Precentor, Sacrista et Cancellarius officiorum
suorum ac dicti clerici de Berefeld' sigilla propria non
habent, ad ipsorum instantiam de consensu eorundem sigil-
lum [nostrum una cum sigillo Capituli et Prepositi dicte
ecclesie Beverlacensis huic instrumento per modum ciro-
grafii confecto est appensum in premissorum fidem et testi-
monium veritatis.
Actis et datis in hoc capitulo nostro hujus ecclesie nostre
Beverlacensis hac instanti die Mercurii predicto proxima
ante festum S. Martini A.D. m°cc° nonagesimo et pontificatus
nostri quint o.
Citatio contra officiates et vij clericos de Berefeld?, quod faciant
residentiam in ecclesia Beverlacensi.
f. 78 b. — Johannes permissione, etc., procuratori Capituli 1290.
Beverlacensis, Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. Abp toth7*
Cum Precentor, Cancellarius, Sacrista et septem clerici de
Berf in nostra Beverlacensi ecclesia, tarn de consuetudine
antiqua quam ex ordinatione nostra etiam subsecuta, resi- cferkfo? theseven
pentiam teneantur facere personalem, devotioni tue man- Berfe11 to enter
VOL. II. N
170
BEVEBXEY MINSTER:
"Personally on
continuous resi-
cause to the
contrary
demus, quatinus ipsos Precentorem, Cancellarium, Sacristam
m^nt^r siJow16 e* clericos moneas et inducas, quod infra mensem a die moni-
tionis sibi facte, ad ipsam ecclesiam veniant,- facturi, ut
tenentur, personalem residentiam in eadem ; Denuncians
publice in ipsa ecclesia, quod nisi tune venerint et residentiam
fecerint, vel aliquid legitimum seu rationabile pro se proposl-
turi, contra ipsos quatinus natura hujusmodi permittit
negotii, suadente justitia, procedemus. Et nos super hujus-
modi executione mandati citra dictum mensem certifices per
tuas patentes litteras, que harum seriem representent.
Dat. apud Cawode iij Kalendas Decembris pontificatus etc.
anno quinto.
the executors of
Matthew of
Bridlington.
Commissio ad audiendum ratiocinia MatJiei de Bridelington.
Not 29 ^ k. — ^' permissione etc.. Dilecto in Christo filio, Decano
b£Sffof°eal1 aM nos^ro Beverlacensi, Dominis W. de Patrington et Henrico
^e Menille, ballivo nostro Beverlacensi, Salutem gratiam et
benedictionem.
Ad audiendum et recipiendum ratiocinia executorum Mathei
de Bridelington def uncti in bonis ipsius et ad referendum nobis
que videritis referenda, vobis cum potestate cohercionis
canon ice committimus vices nostras. Quod si non omnes
etc. duorum vestrum etc.
Datis apud Cawode iij Kalendas Decembris pontificatus
etc. anno quinto.
1291.
June 27.
Abp. to Chapter.
William de
Montfort, Dean of
St. Paul's,
London, by Papal
authority, having
provided Sir
Onufrius, called
Pope of Trevi,
brother of Sir
Nicholas, the
Lord Pope's
chamberlain,
with the next
vacant canonry
and prebend in
Admissio Onufrii dicti de Trebis cui est provisum de (prebenda]
proximo, vacatura in ecclesia JBeverlacensi per decanum S.
Pauli, London., cum protestatione in fine admissionis
inserta.
f. 81 b. — Capitulo Beverlacensi, Salutem, etc.
Cum reverendus vir Magister Willelmus de Monte forti,
Decanus S. Pauli Londoniensis, auctoritate apostolica, ut
dicitur, sibi concessa, Domino Onufrio^ dicto Pape de Trebis,
fratri venerabilis viri, Domini Nicholai, Domini Pape
camerarii, de canonicatu et prebenda in nostra Beverlacensi
ecclesia nulli alii de jure debita proxima providerit vacatura,
sicut per litteras executorias, quas vobis inspiciendas mitti-
mus, liquere videtur ; Nosque visis et intellects litteris
omnibus nobis in hujusmodi negotio exhibitis, quatenus de
ARCHBISHOP ROMANTTS'S REGISTER. 171
iure ac iuris necessitate potuimus et debuimus. Jacobum de Beveriey.as
-r* • - i. • T .• r\ £ •• J £ A appears by the
Resrio, QUI se dicit procuratorem dicti Unumi ad. preiatos letters execu-
» m r tory herewith
canonicatum et prebendam nulii aho de lure debitam vel sent ;i have
. . J admitted James
canonice debendam mposterum admiserimus : -Non inten- of Reggie, onu-
. \ -.."i T frius' proctor, to
dentes quod per admissionem hupsmodi juri nostro, quoad the next vacant
collationes prebendarum in ipsa ecclesia. nunc nee in- Admit MS
. \ proctor as canon
posterum quoquomodo prejudicium generetur, set eacenus and brother.
nostra admissio valeat quatenus sua provisio debitum debeat
sortiri effectum.
Devotioni vestre mandamus quatenus prefatum 0., vel pro-
curatorem suum si quern habet legitimum ejus nomine in
forma predicta admittatis in canonicum et in fratrem.
Yaleatis.
Datis apud Alwenton v Kalendas Julii pontificatus nostri
anno sexto.
Visitatio capituli Beverlacensis.
f. 83. — Capitulo Beverlacensi, Salutem gratiam et benedic-
tionem. '
Quia intendimus per Dei gratiam die Mercurii in crastino
Beati Mathie Apostoli proximo futuro vos et ecclesiam
vestram in Capitulo vestro ad recreationem animarum vestra- Sauhias0the'i
rum personaliter intueri^ ac visitationis officium apud vos AP°stle<
paternis affectibus exercere ;
Devotioni vestre mandamus quatinus dicto die omnes et
singuli nobis personas vestras ibidem et votivam presentiam
filiali promptitudine pretendatis nostra sulubria monita cor-
rectiones et injuncta debita et devota reverentia recepturi,
ex quibus fructum alicujus etc. ut supra in aliis visita-
tionibus.
Datis apud Broddesworth iij Kalendas Februarii pontifi-
catus nostri anno septimo.
Citatio contra Dominum Aymonem de Quarto.
f. 83. — Johannes permissione, dilectis in Christo filiis,
Capitulo nostro Beverlacensi, Salutem gratiam et benedic-
Abp. to Chapter.
As there is
Licet alias vobis mandaverimus quod die Mercurii in
crastino B. Mathei (sic) Apostoli proximo futuro, quia apud
vos in vestro capitulo visitationis officium intendimus paternis done without the'
exercere affectibus, omnes et singuli nobis personas [etc. Quarto, summon6
mutatis mutandis as in last extract] recepturi ; quia tamen
N2
172
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
incmnbunt aliqua ipsius ecclesie Beverlacensis ardua, que,
sine presentia Domini Aymonis de Quarto, canonici vestri, ad
utilitatem et honorem ecclesie non poterunt aliqualiter ipso
die f eliciter prosperari ;
Devotioni vestre mandamus quatinus prefatum Aymonem
citetis peremptorie quod personaliter dictis die et loco coram
nobis compareat, visitationem nostram devote et humiliter
admissurus, et super prefatis arduis nobiscum plenius tracta-
turus. Nos super hujus executione mandati ad diem certifi-
cantes predictum per vestras patentes litteras, que harum
seriem representent.
Datis apud Thorp juxta Ebor. iij Idus Febr. pont. nostri
anno octavo.
129}.
27 Feb.
Abp. to Chapter.
Sir Aymo. Canon
of Beverley, duly
summoned, failed
to appear at the
visitation, or
excuse himself,
and though one
did allege that he
had gone to
London by the
King's leave on
tnisiness of
Sir Otho of
Grandison, he
gave no proof of
it, nor cared to
swear to its truth.
Summon him to
answer for his
ccntumacy on the
next law-day
before Palm
Sunday.
Citatio contra Aymonem.
f. 83. b. — Capitulo Beverlacensi Salutem.
Cum Dominus Aymo, canonicus Beverlacensis, esset peremp-
torie citatus quod compareret coram nobis in capitulo ecclesie
antedicte die Mercurii proxima post f estum Beati Mathei (sic)
apostoli jam elapsum, visitationem nostram secundum formam
mandati nostri vobis directi debita reverentia recepturus, idem
tamen canonicus diutius expectatus nullatenus comparere
curavit, licet quidam coram nobis comparens proponeret
verbotenus prefatum Dominum Aymonem accessisse Lon-
donias de licentia regis pro negotiis Domini Otonis de
Grandissono peragendis ibidem, super quo nullam proba-
tionem exhibebat nee etiam requisitus jurare curabat, quod
veritate sua excusatio nitebatur. Unde quia nos prefatum
Dominum Aymonem, exigente justitia, reputavimus contu-
macem, penam pro contumacia infligendam usque in tempus
aliud reservantes, decernentes etiam supradictum Aymonem
iterate fore vocandum ;
Yobis mandamus quatinus peremptorie citetis seu citari
faciatis memoratum Aymonem, quod compareat coram nobis
vel commissariis nostris, seu commissario nostro, in majori
ecclesia Ebor. proximo die juridico ante Dominicam in Raniis
Palmarum super compertis in visitatione nostra, et aliis ex
nostro officio sibi obiciendis personam suam tangentibus,
legitime responsurus, ulterius recepturus, et facturus quod
canonicum fuerit at que justum. Bene valeatis.
ARCHBISHOP ROMANUS'S REGISTER. 173
Datis aqud Beverlacum iij Kalendas Martii pontificatus
nostri anno octavo.
Citatio contra Dominum W. de Hamelton.
Capitulo Beverlacensi Salutem. Quia Dominus "Willelmus
de Hamelton, Precentor in ecclesia Beverlacensi, legitime
citatus quod compareret coram nobis die Mercurii proxima
post festum Beati Mathie apostoli jam preteritum, in Week>
capitulo vestpo dicto die nullo modo comparuit, preconizatus
tamen et diutius expectatus: ipsum exigente justitia reputavi-
mus contumacem et penam sibi pro contumacia usque in
aliud tempus [etc. as in last, the date when he was to
appear being] secundo die juridico post Dominicam in
Passione Domini.
Capitulo Beverlacensi pro residentia Canonicorum.
f. 83 b. — Johannes permissione etc. dilectis in Christo filiis 1293.
27 June.
capitulo Beverlacensi, Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. Abp. to chapter.
r ...,,,. We hear that you
Fidedignorum, quos a veritatis via nolle declmare credimus, i^e divided
' amongst you £18,
accepimus relata, quod vos summam unam xij, que in ecclesia Jj^^jfj* *t°
vestra ex statuto uaque in annum reservari deberet futurum for the yearly dis-
,..,.., .... . . tributions in ac-
pro distributionibus cotidiams canomcorum iuxta nostram cordance with our
L. .... . , . -» r • • ordinance about
ordmatioiiem residentium in eadem, inter vos, Magistris residence, though
Roberto de Pykering et Henrico de Carleton, concanonicis ing and Henry of
t, Carlton were
vestris, absentibus et non vocatis nee consentientibus, cer- absent, and
toque fratre vestro, viz. Magistro Waltero de (rlovernia, Gloucester
quantum in ipsum fuit, renitente, inprovide dimisistis, peri-
culum quod vobis exinde poterit processu temporis iminere
[minime] formidantes ;
Et quia nolumus sub dissimulationis umbra id, conniventi- Replace the
bus oculis, preterire, vobis nrmiter injungendo mandamus, jpostpone
,. . .« f . ,. . /. ...... business to come
quatmus pretatam summam xii11 taciatis, intra vii] dies a and how a visi-
... ,. j . , ... . tation, though
tempore receptioms presentium numerandos, mtegre restitui the second one
loco suo; Alioquin ad vos festinanter declinabimus, aliis
pretermissis, visitationis officium ex hac causa et aliis, etiam theScause°of7tre
infra annum iteratis vicibus, impensuri ac reformaturi dis- ?ion.my p
tricte, sicut convenit, que viderimus corrigenda, et eos quos
huic iterate visitationi tarn festine causam, statutum
viz. non servando predictum, constiterit procurationem
nostram solvere, exigente justitia, compellemus. Quid
BEVEKLEY MINSTER :
autem inde feceritis nobis distincte rescribatis infra xv dies
post harum receptionem proximos computandos per vestras
patentes litteras que harum seriem representent.
Dat. apud Cawode iij Kalendas Julii pontificatus nostri
anno viij°.
1293.
14 July.
129|.
12 Feb.
Gapitulo Beverlacensi pro pronunciations facta Londoniis, per
Decanum Ebor. pro Domino Aymone de Quarto.
f. 84. — Salutem gratiam et benedictionem.
Quia nuper accepimus et moleste quod quedam pronunciatio
sen decretum per Decanum Bbor. facta vel factum London,
assistente Magistro H. de Carleton, vestro concanonico et
procuratore in istis, in prejudicium ordinationis nostre super
residentia vestra facte et communi approbate consensu vergit
evidentissime et redundat ;
Devotioni vestre sub pena canonica districtius injungendo
mandamus, quatinus pronunciationem ipsam vel decretum
nullatenus emologando firmetis, nee aliqualem eidem prebeatis
consensum, vestre circa hoc deliberationis effectum nobis
cum celeritate qua convenit rescribentes, ut si inoportunitas
exegerit aliud. remedium, in quo tepescere nolumus, ad-
hibeamus caleriter in preniissis.
Dat. apud Cawode ij Idus Julii pontificatus viij.
f. 85. — Collation of Kobert de Notingham, clerk, to the
sacristy of the church of Beverley, which had come to the
archbishop by reason of the vacancy of the provostship of
the same. Burton, 2 Ides of Feb., 10th year of bishopric.
EXTRACTS FROM REGISTER OF ARCHBISHOP
CORBRIDGE.
Littera absolutoria Magistri Walteri de Gloucestria suspensi
ab ingressu ecclesie per Magistrum H. de Meningthorpe,
clerici bone memorie H. quondam Eboracensis Archie-
piscopi.
f. 65.— T. , permissione. etc., dilecto in Christo filio, Magistro
Walteri de Grloucestria, canonico Beverlacensi, Salutem
Gloucester having gratiam et benedictionem.
1300.
ARCHBISHOP COKBRJDGE'S REGISTER. 175
Exposita nobis tua petitio continebai, quod cum Magister been unlawfully
-„.. . . . excommunicated
-Hugo de Memefthorpe bone memorie H., predecessoris nostri. by a commissioner
, ° TUT in the matter of a
clericus executor in negotio provisionis Willelmo de Mar, papal provision
. « i i~ -i • n for a benefice for
pauperi clerico, per Sedem Apostohcam nuper f acte de com- a poor cierk, the
r / r r Abp. leaves it to
petenti beneficio ad collationem seu presentationem Preposifci hw conscience
T} T . r r whether he will
-tfeverlacensis spectante,propria auctoritate et absque sumcienti consider himself
r a • • T excommunicated
potestate in hac parte procedens, licet in te nullam jurisdic- or not.
tionem habebat, seu habeat ordinariam vel delegatam, te minus
juste et juris ordine non servato, ab ingressu ecclesie, ut
asseris, suspendebat, quam sententiam, ut injuste latam,
reputas esse nullanx, nee per ipsam de jure aliqualiter te
ligari.
Nos igitur tuam de anime tue salute sollicitudinem appro-
bantes, ac litterarum scientiam et discretionem in spiritualibus
ponderantes, te, tue conscientie quoad hoc quantum ad nos
attinet, relinquimus per presentes, nisi forte imposterum
auctoritate Apostolica contigerit aliud declarari. Vale.
Dat. apud Lanum, viij Idus Junii, anno gratie mccc° et.
pontificatus nostri primo.
Sequestrum in fructibus et proventibus prepositure
Beverlacensis.
f. 65b. — Thomas, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis, Capitulo 1300.
nostro Beverlacensi. Salutem^ gratiam et benedictionem. Archbishop7"
,, , ,. „ ' ., . : ,. . ,. directs the chap-
Mandamus vobis firmiter iniungentes. quatmus. mspectis ter to sequestrate
,„ „ ,. the Provostryfor
presentibus. omnes fructus, proventus et obventiones pre- reasons not stated
., , . • • 1 i • v j.- J J j.' out of respect for
positure Beverlacensis. mimstrorum ecclesie alimentis deductis. his beloved son,
,. . ., ,. -,., ,. «... theProvost.
ex certis causis, quas, consideratione et optentu dilecti nhi_,
Prepositi ejusdem loci, subticemus, ad presens arctius seques-
tretis, et sub arto de quo nobis cum requisiti fueritis, vos
respondere volumus, faciatis custodiri sequestro, donee aliud
a nobis super hoc receperitis in mandatis. Valeatis.
Dat. apud Thorp, v Kalendas Augusti, pontificatus nostri
anno primo.
Custodia sequestri in prepositura interpositi Magistris W. de
G-loucestria'^ et H. de Carleton commissi.
Capitulo Beverlacensi, Salutem. 1300.
Quia custodiam sequestri auctoritate nostra nuper in fructi- 5 Aug-
bus et proventibus prepositure per vos interpositi, Magistris
176
BEVERLEY MINSTER,
The custody of
the sequestration
given to Mr. Wal-
ter of Gloucester
and Henry of
Carlton.
1300.
15 Aug.
Patrick of
Braferton
directed to pay
£10 due to Mr.
Hugh of Mening-
thorpe for the
fruits of the
prebend of James
Cenci for the
year 1299.
Waltero de Grloucestria et Henrico de Carlton, concanonicis
vestris, ex certa causa duximus committendam, sequestro
hujusmodi in suo robore nichilominus duraturo, vobis
mandamus quatinus execution! super sedeatis prioris littere
vobis misse. De predicto quidem sequestro iidem .... can-
canonici vestri nobis cum requisiti fuerint respondebunt.
Yaleatis.
Dat. apud Muncketon, Nonis Augusti, pontificatus primo.
Lecta coram domino juxta .... presente Magistro W.
de . . . . [Some words are hidden by the binding.]
Alia ad idem.
Magistris W. de Grloucestria et Henrico de Carleton,
canonicis Beverlacensibus, Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem.
Quia discrete viro, Domino Emerico de Carto, germano
venerabilis viri Domini Aymonis, prepositi Beverlacensis,
grave nimis videtur quod Capitulum Beverlacense de fructibus
et proventibus prepositure ejusdem, quos nuper ex certa causa
sequestrari mandavimus, intromittat, petiit a nobis humiliter
quod custodiam sequestri hujusmodi vobis committere dignare-
mus ;
Ipsius itaque precibus inclinati, vobis, de quorum industria
confidimus circumspecta, predicti sequestri custodiam corn-
mittimus, mandantes, quatinus ipsum et alios ministros ejus-
dem Prepositi fructus et proventus prepositure eidem libere
et absque impedimento quolibet per visum et ordinationem
vestram colligere et salvo reponere permittatis, ita quod de
ipsis extra preposituram nichil penitus carietur, sequestro in
ipsis auctoritate nostra .... ipsum capitulum interposito in
suo robore, deductis stipendiis ministrorum ecclesie, nichilo-
minus duraturo. Yaleatis.
Dat. apud Monketon, Nonis Augusti, pontificatus nostri
primo.
Litter a Patricio de Braferton pro a?h. in quibus tenetur
Magistro H. de Meningthorpe liberandis.
Suo Patricio de Braferton, Salutem, gratiam et benedic-
tionem.
Quia Magistro Hugoni de Meningthorpe pro fructibus pre-
bende Jacobi Cinchii de autumpno anni gratie m°cc° nona-
gesimi noni in x11. tenearis, illas sibi liberes, quas ex nunc in
ipsius manibus duximus sequestrandas. Yaleas.
Dat. apud Thorpe, xvij Kalendas Septembris, pontificatus
anno primo.
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 177
Gommissio inter Magistrum H. de Carleton, Canonicum
Beverlacensem, et Priorem et Conventum de Watton
f. 66. — Thomas, Dei gratia etc. dilectis in Christo filiis, 1300.
Magistris Roberto de Forda Eboracensis et Suwellensis ac Abp
Benedicto de Halum ejusdem Suwellensis ecclesiarum,
Cauonicis, Salutem gratiam et benedictionem. In causa sen
negotio mota seu moto inter dilectum filium, magistrum ^hwei? t°n °f
Henricum de Carleton, Canonicum Beverlacensem,, ex parte case^twien6
una, et religiosos viros, Priorem et Conventum de Watton ex Q1r'uWalterr' ofd
altera, super travis de eorum dominico de Watton. et de the Prior of
J * ' Walton, as to
grangia de Kaldekelde ad prebendam suam Beverlacensem,
ut dicitur, spectantibus, vobis conjunctim et divisim cum
•potestate cohercionis canonice committimus vices nostras. Walton, and the
Grange of
ValeatlS. Caldwell.
Dat. apud Patrington vj idus Septembris anno gratie
rnccc0, et pontincatus primo.
Collatio corrodii Archiepiscopi in Bederna Beverlaci.
f. 76. — Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo filio, 1300
Thome dicto de Camera, valletto nostro, Salutem, gratiam 27 Aug.
Grant by Abp.
et benedictionem. to his valet«
Thomas of the
Ob grata et laboriosa nobis et ecclesie nostre impensa chamber, of the
. x Abp.'s corrody in
obsequia, volentes te f avore prosequi speciali, tibi corrodium
quod ad nos in Bederna Beverlaci de jure et consuetudine
spectare dinoscitur, cum suis juribus et pertinentiis universis
damus, concedimus et assignamus pro nostro tempore possi-
dendum.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum presentibus est
appensum.
Datis apud Burton vto Kalendas Septembris anno gratie
m°ccc°? et pontincatus nostri primo.
Inductio Thome, dicti Camerarii, in corrodio Archiepiscopi in
Bederna Beverlaci.
1300.
f. 76 b.— T., Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo filio, Pre- 27 Aug.
posito Beverlaci, ejusdem vicario generali seu locum tenenti,
Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. Mandate to the
Quia corrodium quod ad nos in Bederna Beverlaci de jure Provost or MS
Vicar-General
et consuetudine spectare dinoscitur, dilecto valletto nostro, or deputy to
Thome de Camera, exhibitori presentium, dedimus et conces-
178
BEVERLEY MlKSTER :
27 Feb.
Notice to the
Official of the
Provost that the
Archbishop
intends to hold a
visitation of the
Provostry on
Tuesday after 4th
Sunday in Lent
(12 March) in
Burton Church ;
and directions
to summon the
Provost and his
ministers accord-
ingly. ' .
130°
15 Mar.
sirnus cum suis juribus et pertentiis universis pro nostro
tempore possideiidum, Yobis mandamus quatinus sibi vel
procurator! seu attornato suo, ejus nomine, de eodem corrodio
et ejus pertinentiis omnibus plene et prompte respondeatis de
cetero sicut nobis. Valeatis.
Dat. apud Burton (etc. ut supra).
Littera ad visitandum preposituram Beverlacensem.
66 b. — Thomas Dei gratia etc. dilecto in Christo filio,
Officiali Prepositi Beverlacensis, Salutem etc.
Quia in processu diocesane visitation is nostre intendimus
per Dei gratiam preposituram Beverlacensem die Martis
proxima post Dominicam, qua cantatur " Letare Jerusalem,"
in parochiali ecclesia de North Burton personaliter visitare,
et ea que ad recreationem animarum pertinent paternis
affectibus excercere.
Devotioni vestre tenore presentium injungirnus et man-
damus, quatenus citetis peremptorie Prepositum Bever-
lacensem, seu in spiritualibus vices suas gerentem, quod
ipse cum ministris suis, tarn in Bederna quam alibi, eisdem
die et loco promptitudine filiali intersit, nostra salubria
monita, correctiones et injuncta debita et devota reverentia
recepturus.
Citetis etiam peremptorie omnes rectores vicarios et
presbiteros parochialium ecclesiarum et capellarum, ac ceteros
in eisdem ecclesiis et capellis quibuslibet ministrantes,
necnon de singulis parochiis prepositure ejusdem tres paro-
chianos fidedignos, quod dictis die et loco tempestive coram
nobis compareant, hujusmodi visitationem nostram devote et
humiliter admissuri, exhortationes etiam examinationes et
correctiones debitas canonice subituri ;
Nos super hujus executione mandati citra predictum diem
Martis certificantes fideliter et distincte per vestras putentes
litteras harum [seriem] continentes, et provideafcis quod
distincte et aperte coram nobis ad diem exhibeatis nomina
citatorum. Yaleatis.
Dat. apud Burton iij. kalendas Martii pontificatus nostri
anno secundo.
Litter a ad visitandum capitulum Beverlacense*
f . 66 b. — Thomas, Dei gratia etc., dilectis in Christo filiis,
Capitulo nostro Beverlacensi, Salutem etc.
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 179
Quia intendimus per Dei gratiam proximo die Lune, post Like notice of
-T, . . ,,~° . ,- .,.„ . '., , visitation to the
JJomimcam. qua cantatur Uuasimodo sfeniti, vos in capitulo chapter on the
, . First Sunday
vestro .beverlacensi ad. recreationem ammarum vestrarum after Easter,
personaliter intueri ac visitatioiiis officium apud vos et
ecclesiam vestram paternis affectibus excercere, vobis tenore
presentium injungimus et mandamus quatinus omnes et
singuli dicto die nobis personas vestras ibidem et votivam
presentiam filiali promptitudine pretendatis, nostra salubria
monita, correctiones et injuncta devota et debita reverentia
recepturi, ex quibus fructus proveniat placidus qui vobis pro-
ficiat ad salutem. Ad quern diem nunc absentes confratres
convoeare curetis, nos super hoc certificates ad diem per
vestras patentes litteras que harum seriem representent.
Valeatis.
Dat. apud Burton Idibus Martii pontificatus nostri anno
secundo.
Commissio inter Robertum de Besewike de Beverlaco et alias
in commissione contentos. 7. A ,"
11 April.
f. 67. — Thomas. Dei gratia, etc., iudex unicus inter partes Archbishop
3 *> commissions
infrascriptas a Sede apostolica delegatus, dilectis in Christo
filiis, Cancellario ecclesie nostre et Decano nostro Beverla-
censi, Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. De vestra industria J^papS which
plenius confidentes. vobis secundum vim, formam et eifectum Delegate between
A e . . . Walter of Bese-
mandati Apostolici nobis directi, ad cognoscendum proceden- wyke and Robert
dum et alia que hujusmodi mandatum Apostolicum requirerit M°re,and others.
faciendum, in causa que verti speratur inter Walterum, dic-
tum de Besewyke, de Beverlaco, laicum, nostre diocesis, ex
parte una, et Robertum Jacobi del More, Johaimem del
More, Johannem de Hake, Eobertum Fraunceyse de Lymde,
Gregorium Bati de eadem, Willelmum dictum Sutorem,
Jacobum Galfridi de Middelton et Johannem de Staueley,
clericos, dicte diocesis, ex altera, conjunctim et divisim, cum
potestate cohercionis canonice, committimus vices nostras.
Yaleatis.
Dat. apud Burton juxta Beverlacum iij Id. Aprilis, anno
gratie m°ccc° primo et pontificatus nostri secundo.
Acquietantia quinque marcarum, nomine capituli receptarum,
ratione procurationis Domini.
Memorandum quod iij Id. Aprilis, anno gratie m°ccc° 1301.
primo emanavit quedam littera acquietantie apud Burton n April.
180
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
Receipt to facta capitulo Beverlacensi de quinque marcis receptis ab
Chapter for 5 r . . . , . . ... -. . •
marks, the Abps*. eodem ratione procurations do mini pro visitatione domini
visitation fee.
facta ibidem.
1301.
April.
The Chapter of
Beverley directed
to induct
William of Soot-
hill into the
prebend with
stall in choir and
place in chapter
which was
Charles Beau-
mont's.
Inductio in prebenda(m) que fuit Domini Caroli in ecclesia
Beverlacensi,
f. 67. — Thomas Dei gratia, etc. dilectis in Christo filiis,
Capitulo nostro Beverlacensi, Salutem, gratiam et bene-
dictionem. Quia prebendam que fuit Domini Caroli de Bello
monte in nostra Beverlacensi ecclesia vacantem, dilecto in
Christo filio, Domino Willelmo de Sothille, clerico nostro, cum
suis juribus et pertinentiis, intuitu contulimus caritatis, vobis
mandamus quatinus ipsum in fratrem et concanonicum admit-
tentes, sibi vel procuratori suo ejus nomine stallum in choro
et locum in capitulo ratione prebende hujusmodi debite
assignetis, in persona ejusdem modo consueto quod vestrum
est ulterius exequentes. Valeatis.
Dat. apud Cawode x° Kal. Maii anno gratie m°ccc° primo,
et pontificatus nostri secundo.
1301.
13 ApriL
Collation by Abp.
of William of
Soothill to the
late Charles
Beaumont's
prebend in
Beverley Church.
Collatio prebende que fuit, Domini Caroli in ecclesia
Beverlacensi
Memorandum quod Idibus Aprilis, anno gratie m°ccc°
primo, apud Louthorpe, Dominus contulit Domino Willelmo
de Sothille prebendam que fuit Domini Caroli de Bello monte
in ecclesia Beverlacensi, vacantem, cum omnibus suis juribus
et pertinentiis etc.
Undated.
The Chapter
directed to instal
John of Rolleston
in the Arch-
bishop's vicarage
in the Minster
lately held by
Robert of
Kirketon
Collatio vicarii prebende Domini in ecclesia Beverlacensi.
f . 67 b. — Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis,
Capitulo nostro Beverlacensi, Salutem, gratiam et bene-
dictionem.
Quia Johanni de Eolleston, clerico, inter vos diutius con-
versato, cui super vite honestate et moribus laudabile testi-
monium perhibitur, vicariam nostram in nostra Beveriacensi
ecclesia per mortem Domini Roberti de Kirketon, nuper
nostri vicarii in eadem, vacantem, cui, ut accepimus, cura non
i(m)minet animarum, contulimus, et ipsum vicarium nostrum
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 181
deputavimus loco sui, vobis mandamus quatinus ipsum ad
vicariam hujusmodi admittentes circa personam ipsius ulterius
exequamini quod est vestrum. Proviso quod idem Johannes
se faciat statutis a jure temporibus ad ordines quos hujusmodi
vicaria requirit in proximo promoveri, et interim per sacer-
dotem utilem et honestum onus eidem incumbeus in omnibus
debite supportari. Yaleatis.
Commissio Willelmi,* quondam Eboracensis Archiepiscopi,
ad providendum s'lbi de uno vicario, loco vacarii sui mortui,
in prebenda sua Beverlacensi.
67 b. — Willelmus, permissione divina Eboracensis Archie- ssept"
piscopus, Anglie Primas, dilecto in Christo filio, Magistro
Johanni de Craucumbe, Officiali nostro, Salutem, gratiam et
benedictionem. De vestra fideli industria confidentes ad
rovidendum nobis de vicario ydoneo in ecclesia Beverla-
censi, qui in locum vicarii nostri inibi inducatur, vobis minster-
tribuimus potestatem testimonio presentium, quas sigilli
nostri munimine fecimus roborari.
Dat. apud Lanum iiijto Nonis Septembris, anno pontificat/us
nostri quarto.
Decretum in visitatione Capituli Beverlacensis.
1302
f. 69. — Dilectis in Christo filiis, Capitulo nostro Beverla- 5jUne*
censi, Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem.
Dudum apud vos die Lune proximo post Dominicam qua Decree on results
^_ . . . . , * of Abp's. visi-
cantatur " Quasimodo geniti_, anno gratie m°ccc° primo^ tation of chapter.
visitationis officium_, sicnt ex pastoralis cure debito nobis
incubuit, exercentes, quedam ibidem comperta preter per-
sonalia que tune correximus, ut subsequitur, duximus corri-
genda.
Statuentes in primis quod provideatur ecclesie de duobus 1-gTwoantiphons,
antiphonariis, duobus psalteriis^ et duobus gradalibus, que gjad"dae^tobe
deficiunt in eadem. Et quod omnes libri notati bene exami-
nentur per Precentorem, vel ejus loci tenentem, nisi sibi
w *
invicem contrarientur vel discordent in nota. De choro etiam
et cantoribus taliter disponatur, quod non claudicat in
psallendoj una parte ejusdem respectu alterius nimium pre-
valente, set juxta discretionem vestram equaliter potius
dividatur.
* This appears to be inserted here as a precedent.
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
2. The canons to
go to chapter
and do their
business in better
time so that high
mass may not be
made too late.
One canon at
least to be resi-
dent to hold the
chapter.
If no canon
resident, a con-
vocation of
canons to be
called by some-
body specially
deputed to do
the chapter
business.
3. Only fit per-
sons to be
appointed minis-
ters of the chap-
ter, and they to
pay the wages
of the clerks
serving the stalls
promptly.
Each vicar to
receive 2d. out of
every oblation
from the altar he
serves, and Id.
from every obla-
tion when he
serves at the high
altar as has been
the custom.
On certain usual
feast days mass
is to be cele-
brated at the
altar of S.Thomas
the Martyr.
4. The vicars not
to demand a
candle from the
Sacrist at matins
or vespers unless
necessary, and
then to give the
ends back, and
not carry them
off as has lately
been the dis-
honest custom.
The Precentor
not to interfere
Item canonici pro pertractandis ecclesie negotiis tempes-
tivius solito ingrediantur capitulum et se expediant de eisdem,
ne magna missa ultra horam debitam amodo proteletur. Et
quia nullo quandoque canonico residente negotia capituli et
ecclesie nimis provide multotociens agitantur, volumus et
mandamus quatinus diligent! deliberatione prehibita, sic per
statuta vestra specialia de unius cujusque vestrum facienda
residentia disponatis, quod omni ternpore anni sit saltern unus
canonicus ad minus residens, qui capitulum celebret, ipsiusque
negotia consulte dirigat et pertractet. Et si contingat ipsum,
dum presit capitulo, aliquid ordinare, illud succedenti sibi
alii canonico resident! non liceat revocare, nisi error em con-
tineat manifestum, et turn, facta propter hoc special! con-
vocatione confratrum, per commune consilium capituli deci-
datur, et postmodum • prout justum fuerit rationabiliter
emendetur. Quod si forsan ex causa inevitabili et legitima,
licentia a nobis optenta ad tempus nullum contigerit canoni-
cum residere, fiat convocatio huiusrnodi per aliquem circum-
spectum juratum qui negotia capituli noverit prudenter
dirigere, per vos ad hoc specialiter deputatum, quousque
canonici ad faciendum residentiam revertantur, vel aliquis
eorundem.
Preterea volumus quod non nisi apti, necessarii et qui
sufficiant in ecclesia recipiantur ministri, et quod clerici[s]
stallis deservientibus de suis stipendiis cum promptitudine
satisfaciat debita, prout fieri consuevit. Si quis vero statutis
terminis eisdem clericis sua stipendia solvere tardaverit, omni
die quo a solutione cessaverit, ad duplum salarii communis et
soliti quousque satisficerit teneatur. Percipiant autem vicarii
singuli sine calumqnia in futurum de qualibet oblatione
facta in altaribus quibus deserviunt duos denarios, et de
qualibet oblatione facta quando celebrant in magno altari
unum denarium, sicut vobis consentientibus vel saltern con-
niventibus, est hactenus, ut dicitur, usitatum, In capella
Sancti Thome Martiris certis diebus feriatis missa per unum
de vicariis celebretur, sicut fieri consuevit, nee amodo propter
scandalum sine magna causa et rationabili subtrahatur.
Item unam candelam ad matutinas et alias ad vesperas,
nisi quando necesse fuerit, vicarii non exigant aut recipiant a
Sacrista. Et si receperint, cum sit opus, quicquid superfuerit
sibi vel ejus locum tenenti restituant, nee illud secuum in-
honeste auferant, ut solebant. De cujus clericis, cum eos ad
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 183
obsequium suum in eoclesiam introduxerit, Precentor vel with the sacrist's
\ -, » -, -, . -, clerks, but only
ejus locum tenens exammando, mcrepando, vel corngendo, with thoge who
Quantum ad ea que officium Sacriste contingent, se nullatenus church. Nor is
... . > , .,,. , , . ? . . , . the Master of the
intromittat, nisi de ilhs dumtaxat clericis qui in ecclesia Beam to let
legere debeant et cantare. Nee figantur amodo per Magis-
T . -i •• . • . T . -, . there unless the
trum trabis oblati cerei, ut ardeant super earn in prejudi- offerer so wishes.
cium et contra jus et statum Sacriste, nisi hoc sine induc-
tione seu excitatione qualibet ex mera voluntate et devotione
processerit offerentis.
Item moneantur per vos legitime omnes clerici de Beref el . 5- AJI clerks of
r . . . P . the Berfell to
quod infra mensem a die momtioms tacte eisdem. residentiam reside as they
* . were bound, or
ad quam tenentur, in ecclesia iaciant personalem, et sua they wm be.
dicant psalteria juxta consuetudinem et ordinationem anti-
quam, alioquin amoveri eosdem et alios loco eorum substitui
faciemus.
Nullus canonicus, vicarius. seu minister ecclesie. de e. NO canon,
...... . ., -, ., T , . . vicar, or minister
negotiatiombus aut contractibus, de quibus scandalum oriri to be engaged in
-.,. '^-iT i • any business
potent se amodo ahquatenus intromittat sub pena canonica which may cause
.* ., j. . , scandal.
quam si contravenerit, potent tormidare.
Item volumus et mandamus quod provideatis vobis de 7. A proper
& • ,• i ... ... » -,.. auditor to be
sumcienti et ydoneo. citius quo poteritis. Auditore quern vos appointed, not a
,, , T . , ,--,-, married man.
nabere nolumus decetero, sicut nee decet, nee etiam expedit,
conjugatum.
Ad hec super petitione nobis porrecta, tarn de mitiganda s. ontheques-
residentia Precentoris, Cancellarii et Sacriste, quam de residence and
corrodiis non residentium canonicorum, et de oblationibus, Precentor,
T .. .-i ., ... Chancellor, and
obventiombus ac concessiombus, que et quas canomci resi- sacrist in
-i ..-.., „ ., . . oblations, let the
dentes percipiunt, de quibus nil contribuunt ceteris personis, ordinance of
ex ordinatione bone memorie Johannis, Eboracensis Archie- oopyrfttS*
piscopi, predecessoris nostri, ad continue residendum artatis, F
que sicut oneris ita emolumenti se supplicant fieri participes,
et super ordinatione hujusmodi, quam vel transcriptum ipsius
infra mensem a receptione presentium nobis sub sigillo vestro
mitti precipimus.
Necnon super hiis que Prepositum et suos ministros ac Beder- 9- The question
? . of the Provost
nam continefunt. deliberare volumus magfis pleiie, et ex tune, and the ministers
. of the Bedern
equitate servata, ulterius facere quod incumbit. is reserved.
Hec nostra statuta salubria, correctiones et iniuncta, plene These statutes
T ,. ,. .-, IT-- . -, to be read in
et distmcte. sinsfulis mensibus, semel ad minus, in capitulo chapter after the
., iv/r ^-i • J -i • • Martylogy once a
post lectum Martilogium, ut, dum singulorum imprimuntur month at least.
cordibus,, fructus inde proveniat placidus, in virtute obedi-
entie perlegi et observari per omnia faciatis, quousque ad
184
BEVEHLEY MINSTER:
vos nos contingat alias declinare, et tune cognito plenius
statu ecclesie, possimus, si opus fuerit, aliqua addere vel
mufcare. Scituri quod transgressores, si qui fuerint, in pre-
missis, relinquere nolumus secundum sua demerita canonici
impunitos. Valeatis.
Dat. apud Scroby Nonis Junii anno gratia m°ccc° secundo
et pontificatus nostri tertio.
130f.
8 Jan.
Sentence of ex-
communication
against all
infringing the
liberty of
Beverley to be
enforced.
Sententia contra infringentes libertatem Domini Bever-
lacensem.
f. 73. — Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis,
Capitulo nostro Beverlacensi, Salutem, gratiam et bene-
dictionem.
Meminini mus nos dudum in Beverlacensi ecclesia, presen-
tibus multis ex vobis, astanteque tarn cleri quam populi multi-
tudine, omnes illos qui malitiose,clam vel palam, libertatem nos-
tram Beverlacensem, sive infra villam ipsam sive extra, in villis,
vivariis sive parcis, vel locis aliis quibuscumque, spectantibus
ad libertatem eandem violaverint seu infregerint, eorumque
auctores et fautores quoscumque, accensis candelis et ex-
tinctis, canonica monitione premissa, pupplice et solempniter
excommunicasse in genere, et excommunicates etiam nun-
ciasse, quamquam omnes tales ipso facto sint majoris excom-
municationis sententia in anno promulgata pluries dampna-
biliter involuti. Quam sententiam et pupplicationem ejusdem
tarn in dicta Beverlacensi ecclesia diebus Dominicis solempni-
bus et festivis de verbo ad verbum ut supra proximo *
[quam in pleno loci mercato diebus ejusdem in forma pre-
scripta, quam vobis observandam nuper dedimus, pupplice et
solempniter modo consueto et debito recitetis efficaciter et
solempniter pupplicetis. Inquirentes de nominibus eorundem,
de quibus cum legitime constiterit vobis citra mediam quad-
ragesimam constare faciatis fideliter per vestras litteras,
harum seriem continentes. Nee cessetis a denunciatione
hujusmodi, donee aliud super hoc a nobis receperitis in
mandatis. Yaleatis.
Dat. apud Cawode vj Idus Januarii pontificatus nostri anno
quarto.]
* The remainder taken from
Rypon."
Sententia contra infrigentes libertatem domini
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 185
Absolutio Magistri Henrici de Carleton, Canonici Beverlacensis,
et dispensatio ejusdem super irregularitate contracta pro
contributione facta Domino Regi.
f. 73 b. — Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo filio, 130|.
Magistro Henrico de Carleton. Canonico Beverlacensi, nostre AVHM^rch<
c ' 3 Abp. to Canon
diocesis, Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem.
Litteras venerabilis patris, fratris Gentilis, miseratione
divina tituli Sancti Martini in montibus, Presbiteri Car- ?• Martin in
Montibus.
dinalis, pro te nobis directas recepimus, tenorem qui sequitur
continentes.
Venerabili in Cristo patri . . . Dei gratia Archiepiscopo The cardinal to
T,, . T • ...'..... r „ r the Abp., Henry
_b boracensi, vel . . . ejus vicario in spirituahbus, trater ofcariton,
Gentilis, miseratione divina tituli Sancti Martini in Montibus his temporal
Presbiter Cardinalis. Salutem in Domino. Ex parte Henrici de taiiage to the
r» 1 A ••i--r> i • T • i- W^ in spite of
Oarleton, canonici ecclesie ±>everlacensis, vestre diocesis, nobis the new Papal
T i . ... . . •-. . ,. . ... law, and there-
obiata petitio contmebat, quod ipse olim., timore amissionis by incurred ex-
n ,. .,.,... . TOT communication,
bonorum temporalium. contra innibitionem Apostolice bedis, and had asked
... ... ., absolution.
et nove constitutionis tenorem, ministris seu collectoribus
illustris viri . . . Regis Anglie, talliam seu collectam per-
solvit, propter quod sententiam excommunicationis incurrit,
in tales generaliter promulgatam, et sic ligatus, non tamen in
contemptum clavium, in suis ordinibus ministravit, • et alias
se ingessit divinis. Super quibus supplicari fecit humiliter,
sibi de absolutionis beneficio et dispensationis gratia per
Sedem Apostolicam salutari remedio subveniri.
Nos igitur auctoritate Domini Pape, cujus penitentiarie
curam gerimus, circumspectioni vestre committimus, quatinus,
si est ita, ipsum a dicta excommunicationis sententia juxta
formam ecclesie absolvatis, eoque ad tempus, prout expedire
videritis, a suorum ordinum executione suspense, demum
suffragantibus ei meritis, alioque canonico non obstante super
irregularitate ex premissis contracta, eo misericorditer cum
auctoritate dispensetis predicta ; proviso attente quod super
hoc mandatis Domini Pape et Romane ecclesie semper parebit,
et faciet illam penitentiam quam sibi duxerit injungendam.
Datis Lateran' iij Kalendas Decembris, pontificatus Domini
Benedicti, Pape undecimi, anno primo.
Te a dicta excommunicationis sententia iuxta formam ecclesie 29 NOV., isos.
•. . Therefore we
absolvimus, et te ad tempus a tuorum ordinum executione sus- have absolved
him,
penso, tandem suffragantibus tibi meritis, super irregularitate
dicto modo contracta tecum misericorditer dispensamus.
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186
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
1303.
6 April.
Abp. to John of
Benstead.
Hearing that the
Provost is about
the King and
trying to hinder
the Abp. in his
office by un-
truths, is writing
to the King, and
sends a copy of
the letter, hoping
that his corre-
spondent will
suggest to the
King not to
support the
Provost in his
error.
As to the direc-
tions given by
W. de Hamilton
has made the
best answer he
could.
Same day.
Abp. to Adam
of Blyth.
Assist John the
bearer.
Same day. Abp.
to Friar Walter no
longer the King's
confessor but
Cardinal of the
most holy Eoman
Court.
To same effect as
two last.
In cujus rei testimonium litteras nostras tibi fieri fecimus
has patentes. Valeas.
Datis apud Beverlacum ij Idus Martii, anno gratie m°ccc°
tertio, et pontificatus nostri quinto.
Slip between ff. 99 and 100.— Thomas, etc., dilecto in
Christi filio Domino Johanni de Benesuede, Salutem, gratiam
et benedictionem.
Audivimus quod prepositus Beverlacensis est prope domi-
num nostrum Regem, et suggerit ei multa que non continent
veritatem, et nos in officii nostri exercitio pro viribus nititur
impedire. Et ideo scribimus domino nostro Regi ita breviter
sicut possumus veritatem, et mittimus vobis copiam littere,
qua inspecta et concepta, rogamus quatinus velitis dirigere
latorem presentium, ut possit cito et f eliciter expediri. Et vos,
si placet, aliqua verba tempore oportuno domino nostro Regi
velitis suggerere, quod non manuteneat dictum prepositum in
suo errore, quia verba sua nichii vel modicum continent
veritatis. Et si vobis videatur quod aliqua clausula in littera
nostra sit tacenda, illam omittere poteritis quousque tempus
inveneritis oportunum.
Ceterum ad illud quod nobis mandastis per Dominum W.
de Hamelton respondimus illud quod pro vobis et nobis melius
'et securius scivimus cogitare. Super hiis et aliis nobis si
placet vestra beneplacita rescribatis. Yaleatis.
Dat. apud Wilton viij Idus Aprilis, pontificatus nostri anno
quirto.
Same slip. — Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilecto sibi in Christo
Domino Ade de Blyda, Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem.
Rogamus quatinus Johannem, latorem presentium, in nostris
agendis velitis juvare sicut vestri gratia alias solebatis nobis
vestra beneplacita rescribentes. Yaleatis.
Datis apud Wilton, viij Idus Aprilis.
Reverendo parti, fratri Waltero non jam Regis confessori,
set sacrosancte Romane Curie Cardinali, Thomas Eboracensis
ecclesie sacerdos, sui ac negotiorum suorum recommend a-
tionem cum omni reverentia et honore.
Audivimus quod Prepositus Beverlacensis multa verba
seminat in curia domini nostri Regis, que non continent
veritatem, et ideo dirigimus unam litteram domino nostro
Regi conditiones Prepositure et facti nostri seriem con-
tinentem, cujus copiam dedimus latori presentium, vobis, si
in curia vos inveneritis, ostendendam.
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 187
Qua visa et concepta rogamus quatinus, sicut vobis visum
fuerit, latorem presentium dirigatis et juvetis, ut dominus
noster concipiat veritatem, nobis vestra beneplacita rescri-
bentes. Yaleatis. Dat. apud Wilton, viij Idus Aprilis.
Chier sire, paroles volent et auoms nous oy qe le Prouost 1303.
de Beuerley est venuz a vous, et vous ad fet entendre ^t^SS
aucunes condicions de la prouostee autres qe veritables, et EdwardL
aucunes choses ad dit de vous par quay par auenture vous
peussez estre esmeu encountre nous, et ceo herrioms moult'.
Pur quay il nous semble qe mester est qe nous escriuoms a
vostre haustesce la verite et de la prouostee et de nostre fait.
Sire, si vous plest, veritablement auoms nous entendu qe la
franchise del eglise de Beuerley grauntee fuist a commence-
ment par voz auncestres, nomement par le bon Eay Athelstan,
qe dona a Dieu et saint Johan et a ses set prestres la
fraunchise, si bele et si noble, cum vous auez bien oy, sicum
nous entendoms. Et de eel houre sire lauandit saint Johan
ordina leglise de Beuerlay, et fit Chauoynes et ordina la
Bederne pur seruir a Chanoynes et a ministres del eglise, et
fist Prouost qui serment dait faire a lealment fair le seruice.
Et touz les successours saint Johan vnt la prouostee donee,
chescun apres autre, si il ne f eust en tens de vacacioun. . Et
ceo est chose conuz et notoir, et ceo dait bien sauoir le
Prouost, qe il entre pa[r] Japostoill* de Rome, et ceo ne
eust il pas fait, si la collacioun ne eust estee al Erceuesqe.
Et nos predecessours vnt visitee, ausi cum fer deuaint, les
Chanoynes, et le Prouost et la prouostee, et nous meismes
la auoms visitee paesiblement ia deus feez, et amendes
fait. Et pur ceo qe nous trouames en nostre darreyn
visitacioun qe le prouost auait donee vne eglise de Patring-
ton a vne persone son cosyn qe ne fuist mye de age, ne
fuist fet prestre dedenz lau, maundames a nostre Official
qil faist apeler la persone deuant luy pur sauoir la verite de
la bosoigne. Et vint la persone par procuratour et
respoundi, et si ad pledee deuant le Official, et declaree
est par proces en nostre courte Crestiene, qe leglise ad
estee vacaunt taut de tens vn ans et pluys, Et par cele resoun
si est deuolut' e qe la collacion de cele eglise fu deuolut' a nous
et donee par nostre auctorite a vn autre persone, qi est entre
paisiblement, et la tent, et tener la dait par drait escrit. Et,
chire sire, lauandit Prouost en le proces du play se greueit
encountre le Official et demaunda deslayes de nous, et quant qil
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188
BEVERLEY MINSTER
demaunda nous luy grauntames volunters ausi fauorablement
cum il eust estee nostre frer, mes il luy sembleit pur nostre
deboneirtee qe il nous deuait surmounter, et nous comenceyt
a toller nostre iurisdiccion et dedenz leglise de Beuerlay
et dehors. Et purceo qe nous auioms este amys et tout le
pluys pur la reuerence de vous le faymes priere qil venist a
nous a Cawode par deus fiez, et luy monstrames tout en bele
manere et amyablement qil se deust tener cum nostre clerke,
et ne mye nos genz depiler ne nostre estat occuper, et fuymes
acordez en ceste fourme qe treis persones furent nomez en
queles nous et ly acordames, qe deussent le demandes oyr et
de vne part et de autre seson fair Verte tergum (dorso) et
quant il mit al iour assis le Prouost ne voleit pas la fourme
tener, pur quay qe dit fuit qe chescun faist son meuz. Et
puys me maundait le Proust par mestre Robert de Pickeringe,
qe ly pluyt qe la chose praist deslaye jesque a Pasche. Et
nous ly respoundym.es qe ceo nous pluyt bien quant a la
temporaltee, mes kaunt a lespiritualtee pur le saint tens
volioms fere amendes de defautes qe nous auioms trouee
[touchent ses benefices et sa persone], et ly faymes somondre
deuant nous. Et quant il auait oy parler de somounse il se
moucea, si sen ala, e ne sauioms ou il deuint. Ore dient
aucune genz qil est en Escoce. Et sire si vous sceusses cum
chiez nous luy tenimes, et quele grace nous ly tendymes, sil
vousist auer nostre consail suy a son prou et sanz son damage,
et coment il nous despisaist et moult de mouwes et cJipous (sic)
autre si bien countre cum countre nous meneit vous esmerueil-
lerez sicum nous quidoms. Et cher sire pur ce qe nous tenoms
meisme lestat qe auait saint Johan, et qe il tendreit sil feust
ore en vie a qi vous auez grant deuocioun, sicum bien le
sauoms, prioms vostre hautesce qe vous nous voillez mayn-
tener en nostre estat, et ayder qe nous pussoms nostre office
fere sanz desturbaunce le Prouoste a qi nous sumes prest et
paraillee a fere tote resoun, sil nous voille entendre. Et si
nous dit home qil vey a procures graunt desturbaunce si
vous voillez totes ses paroles escuter. Et, sir, pur ceo ke les
genz le Prouost' vnt enuee graunt force deslaies al auant dit
eglys pur desturber ceo qe par nous est fete voillez si vous
plest, mander a vostre viscount qe il oste la lai force qe par
la gent le Prouost est amene al auant dit eglise. E si le
Prouost di[t] ke il est apelle a la Curt de Rome, sir si vous
plest la tuicion de teus apeles si pertent al eglys de Eueruik'
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 189
e de Cantorbir', e ceo est chose conu e notori per my tut
Engletere. Nostre seignur vous garde sain e sauf"*, e vous
doigne bone vie e lunge e oue ioy returner. Done a Wylton
le quint iour de Aueri] le an de grace mccc e terce.
Cdpitulo Beverlacensi ad inhibendum torniamenta et duello, in
Quadragesima.
f. 73.— Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis,
capitulo nostro Beverlacensi, Salutem, gratiam et benedic- ^P- .
tionem. Ecce nunc tempus acceptable, ecce nunc dies salutis.
In quibus diebus secundum Prophetam sacerdotes et viri eccle-
siastici inter templum et altare clamare debent, "Parce,
Domine, parce populo tuo," lacrimis et orationibus insistentes, Joel 1L 17'
que sunt arma clericorum. Et a sacris canonibus tornea-
menta, duella et alie nundine, in quibus homicidia et anima-
rum pericula poterunt verisimiliter iminere sunt inhibita et
penitus reprobata. Propter quod nos ad sacrorum canonum
observationem astricti, animarum periculis precavere volentes,
vos omnes et singulos sub pena excommunicationis majoris,
quam si mandatum nostrum contempseritis, in singulos
vestrum proferimus in hiis scriptis, districte monemus primo,
secundo et tertio peremptorie, cum temporis angustia moni-
tionurn intervalla minime patiatur, quatinus ad hujusmodi
spectacula nullatenus declinetis, nee familiares seu ministros
vestros, qui una vobiscum de bonis ecclesiasticis exhibentur,
hastiludia vel consimiles ludos illicitos et periculosos maxime
in hiis sacris diebus jejunii, quibus est penitentie et devotioni,
ut premittitur, magis quam hujusmodi la[s]civiis dampna-
biliter insistendum, aliquo modo facere permittatis vel ad
hujusmodi congressum temere presumendum per eosdena
conventiculam ex edicto aliqualiter proclamari; hoc etiam
eisdem vestris ministris monitione canonice inhibentes sub
pena predicta ne presumant talia aliqualiter attemptare.
Quod si quicquam fuerit attemptatum, id revocent absque
mora. Et si talia alicubi fuerint proclamata ad loca hujus-
modi non declinent.
Quid autem feceritis in premissis, nos infra quatuor dies a
die receptionis presentium numerandos, reddatis per vestras
litteras que harum tenorem contineant certiores. Yaleatis.
Data apud Burton ij kalendis Martii anno gratie mccc0
tertio, et pontincatus nostri quinto.
190
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
1304.
28 July.
Abp. to Robert
of Bithnm,
Chancellor of
Beverley,
appointing him
to act in the
matter of the
Papal provision
for John Russel,
a poor priest,
with Canon
Henry of Carlton
instead of Canon
William of
Lincoln who is
ill.
130|.
5 Jan.
Abp. to his
official.
Drop proceedings
in the articles
found against
James de Auysio,
rector of Patring-
ton, in our recent
visitation of the
Provostry in
regard to the
rectory, but sum-
mon him before
the Abp. himself.
Slip between ff. 99 & 100. — Thomas, etc., dilecto in Christo
filio, Magisfcro Koberto de Byteham, ecclesie nostre Beverla-
censis Cancellario, Salutem, gratiam et benediction em.
Nuper ad cognoscendum, discutiendum, difliniendum,
pronunciandum et exequendum in negotio provisionis facte
de Johanne Kussel, paupere presbitero, a Sede Apostolica
nobis commisso, tarn super quibusdam exceptionibus propositis
ex parte Prepositi Beverlacensis contra ipsum et provisionem
ipsius, in inquisitione ad mandatum nostrum auctoritate pre-
dicta per Decanum nostrum Beverlacensem super certis per
nos demandatis articulis nuper facta, quam super proponendis
exceptionibus in negotio antedicto dilectis filiis Magistris
Willelmo de Lincoln et Henrico de Carleton, dicte nostre
Beverlacensis ecclesie Canonicis, commisimus vices nostras;
Yerum quia intelleximus quod dictus Magister Willelmus,
corporis sui adversa valetudine, ut dicitur, prepeditus, ad
proximum diem Jovis in dicto negotio prefato assignatum non
poterit commode interesse.
Vos loco ipsius hac vice dicto Magistro Henrico adjungimus,
et vobis una cum eodem ad diem predictum, dumtaxat vices
nostras committimus super illis cum cohercionis canonice
potestate, commissione nostra priori in suo robore nichilo-
minus duratura. Vale.
Datis apud Lanum, v Kalendas Augusti anno gratie m°occm°
quarto et pontificatus nostri quinto.
Revocatio negotii moti contra Jacobum, qui se dicit Rectorem
ecclesie de Patrington.
97 d. — Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo filio,
Officiali nostro Eboracensi, super quibusdam articulis in
nostra visitatione, quam dudum in prepositura Beverlacensi
exercuimus, contra Jacobum de Auysio, qui se dicit Eectorem
ecclesie de Patrington, nostre diocesis, compertis, Commis-
sario per nos specialiter deputato, Salutem, gratiam et bene-
dictionem.
Quoniam negotium contra prefatum Jacobum super
dictis articulis per vos motum ad nostrum examen ex certa
scientia duximus revocandum, Mandamus vobis firmiter
injungentes, quatinus processum coram vobis habitum in
negotio memorato contra predictum Jacobum cum omnibus
ipsum processum contingentibus, sub sigillo vestro inclusum,
nobis fideliter transinittatis. Inhibentes vobis ne contra
ARCHBISHOP CORBRLDGE'S REGISTER. 191
dictum Jacobum ratione articulorum predictorum seu aliorum
quoruincunque, quorum discussionem et decisionem nobis
specialiter reservamus, ulterius procedatis. Prefigentes dicto
Jacobo vel ejus procurator! diem Jo vis proximum post
instans festum Purificationis Beate Marie Virginis, quod
compareat Coram nobis, vel commissariis nostris apud Cawode
ad faciendum et recipiendum in negotio predicto quod
canonicum fuerit et consonum rationi.
Et qualiter mandatum nostrum hujusmodi fueritis executi,
nobis vel dictis Commissariis nostris constare faciatis citra
diem predictum per vestras patentes litteras, harum seriem
continent es. Yaleatis.
Datis apud Cawode Nonis Januarii anno gratie m°ccc°
tertio, et pontificatus nostri quarto.
Collatio ecclesie de Patrington Domino Willelmo de Sothill per
lapsum temporis.
f. 99. — Official! Curie Eboracensis venerabilis patris Domini 130f.
Thome, Dei gratia Eboracensis Archiepiscopi, etc., sub tenore Abp- JJ official of
mil eormi+nr. Court of York to
qUl SeqUltUr. induct person to
Commissarius specialis.
Thomas, Dei gratia Eboracensis Archiepiscopus, etc., dilecto
in Christo filio, Officiali nostro Eboracensi, Salutem, gratiam legally vacant>
et benedictionem.
De vestre circumspectionis industria confidentes ad con-
ferendum ecclesiam de Patrington, nostre diocesis, persone
y donee in eventu si ipsam de jure vacare sententialiter
fuerit declaratum, cum ejusdem collatio per notoriam negli-
gentiam patroni ejusdem hac vice ex lapsu temporis ad
nos esse dinoscitur canonice devoluta, necnon ad investiendum
et in corporalem possessionem ejusdem ecclesie inducendum
per vos vel alium (sic) personam, cui earn duxeritis con-
ferendam, et inductam censura ecclesiastica qua convenit
defendendum, et omnia alia singula faciendum que natura
hujusmodi negotii exigit et requirit, Vobis tenore presentium
vices nostras committimus cum cohercionis canonice potestate.
Yaleatis.
Datis apud Burton vto Kalendas Martii, anno gratie mccc°
tertio, et pontificatus nostri quarto.
Dilecto sibi in Christo Domino Willelmo de Sothill, pres- 1303,
bitero, Salutem in amplexibus Salvatoris*
192
BEVEKLEY MINSTER:
Collation of
Patrington
Church on Sir
William of
Soothill.
Tue probitatis merita quibus pollere dinosceris et grata
obsequia dicto venerabili patri ac ecclesie sue Eboracensi
inultipliciter et utiliter per te impensa intime ponderantes,
ecclesiain de Patrington, Eboracensis diocesis, vacantem,
cujus collatio ad dictum dominum nostrum Archiepiscopum
auctoritate Lateranensis Concilii ista vice legitime devoluta
existit, tibi cum omnibus suis juribus et pertinentiis caritatis
intuitu conferimus pleno jure, et te per cyrotecam nostram
investimus corporaliter in eadem. In cujus rei testimonium
sigillum officii nostri presentibus est appensum.
Datis Eboraci in capella Beate Marie et Sanctorum
Angelorum Ebor. in prima pulsatione prime, ij Idus Martii
anno gratie millesimo ccc° tertio.
130f.
14 March.
Abp. to official of
York to revoke
commission to
hear the case of
James of Auysio,
who claims to be
rector of Patring-
ton, on the
collation of
William of
SoothiU, which
the Abp. accepts,
and revoke the
case before him-
self.
130}.
15 March.
Revocatio commissionis facte Officiali Eboracensi super negotio
ecclesie de Patrington post collationem ejusdem ecclesie.
Thomas, Dei gratia, etc. dilecto in Christo filio, Officiali
nostro Eboracensi, Salutem etc. Nuper vobis negotium ex
officio motum contra Jacobum de Auysio, possessioni ecclesie
de Patrington iiostre diocesis, ut dicitur, incumbentem, com-
misimus audiendum, vosque tanquam noster in hac parte
Commissarius specialis, observato juris ordine, contra eum
sententialiter pronunciastis dictam ecclesiam de jure vacare,
et collationem ejusdem ecclesie per notoriam negligentiam
Beverlacensis Prepositi, patroni ejusdem, ex lapsu temporis
ad nos esse canonice devolutam, et postmodum vice et
auctoritate nostra, vobis specialiter in hac parte commissa,
persone ydonee videlicet Domino Willelmo de Sothill, clerico,
ecclesiam illam contulistis cum juribus et pertinentiis spec-
tantibus ad eandem.
Nos autem collationem hujusmodi acceptantes, et earn,
sicut officio nostro incumbit, exequi intendentes, commis-
sionem sive potestatem vobis in premissis concessam ad nos
tenor e presentium revocamus. Valeatis.
Datis apud Burton ij Idus Martii anno gratie mccc° tertio,
et pontificatus nostri quinto.
Inductio in ecclesiam de Patrington.
Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo filio, Magistro
Eoberto de Scoureburg', Salutem etc. Cum Officialis Curie
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 193
nostre Eboracensis in negotio ex officio moto contra Jacobum
de Avysio, possession! ecclesie de Patrington, nostre diocesis,
ut dicitur, incumbent em, Commissarius ex auctoritate commis- E*tril«tol1
sionis nostre in hac parte sibi f acte procedens, observato juris
ordine, sententialiter pronunciaverit ecclesiam predictam de
jure vacare, et collationem ejusdem ecclesie per notoriam
negligentiani Beverlacensis prepositi, patroni ejusdem, ex
lapsu temporis ad nos esse canonice devolutam, ipsumque
Jacobum, quatenus de facto dicte ecclesie incumbebat, per
sententiam suam amoverit ab eadem, et ecclesiam illam vice
et auctoritate nostra sibi commissa persone ydonee, videlicet
Domino Willelmo de Sothill, clerico, contulerit cum juribus
et pertinentiis spectantibus ad eandem. Cujus negotii execu-
tionem jam ad manus nostras duximus revocandam, colla-
tionem hujusmodi acceptantes, Tibi committimus et manda-
mus quatinus dictum Dominum Willelmum in dicte ecclesie
cum suis juribus et pertinentiis corporalem possessionem
inducas, inductumque defendas, faciens ei de fructibus et
proventibus ejusdem ecclesie integre responderi; Contra-
dictores et rebelles per suspensionis et excommunicationis
senteutias et per omnem censitram ecclesiasticam compes-
cendo. Certificaturus nos de presentis executione mandati
et qualiter processeris in hac parte ; et si aliquos forsitan
excommunicaveris, de nominibus eorundern per tuas litteras
harum seriern continentes, cum ex parte dicti Domini Willelmi
fueris requisitus. Yaleas.
Datis apud Burton Idibus Martii anno gratie mccc° tertio
et pontificatus nostri quinto.
Decano Beverlacensi quod defendat Dominum Willelmum de
Sothill in possessione pacifica ecclesie de Patrington.
Ibid. Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo filio,
Mao-istro Willelmo de Jarewell, decano nostro Beverlacensi, TO the Dean of
" Beverley to
Salutem, etc. Cum dilectus clericus noster, Dominus Willel- defend wniiam
of Soothill's title
mus de Sothill, in ecclesie de Patrington, nostre diocesis, ad to Patrington.
collationem iiostram per notoriam negligentiam Beverla-
censis Prepositi, patroni ejusdem, juxta statutum Latera-
nensis Concilii ex lapsu temporis canonice devolute et
eidem Domino Willelmo auctoritate nostra collate, posses-
sionem pacincam sit inductus, Discretion! vestre committimus
194,
BEVERLEY MINSTEE :
[vices nostras] injungimus firmiter et mandamus, quatiims
ad dictam ecclesiam personaliter accedens, ipsum Dominum
Willelmum in possessione sua predicta defendas et facias
quod dicte ecclesie ac fructuum et proventuum ejusdem pos-
sessione pacifica et quieta gaudeat in futurum, contradictores
et rebelles per suspensionis et excommunicationis sententias,
et per omnem censuram ecclesie vice nostra compescendo.
Inquirens diligenter de nominibus eorundum rebellium, de
quibus, cum tibi constifceret evidenter, nos certifices de
eisdem, et qualiter processeris contra eos, per tuas patentes
litteras, harum seriem continentes, cum ex parte dicti Domini
Willelmi fueris requisitus. Vale.
Datis apud Burton, xvj Kalendas Aprilis, pontificatus
nostri anno quinto.
130f.
14 Feb.
The'like to the
Serjeant of
Patrington.
130}.
2 March.
Abp. to Aymo de
Carto, Provost of
Beverley to show
indulgence or
other cause why
he holds a plura-
lity of benefices
with cure of
souls ; first
within Provostry
of Beverley, the
Precentorship of
Servienti de Patrington pro Willelmo de Sothillj et jure suo in
ecclesia de Patrington defendendo.
f. 99 b. — Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo filiol
Servienti nostro de Patrington Salutem, gratiam et bene-
dictionem. Mandamus tibi firmiter injungentes, quatinus
Domino Willelmo de Sothill, Rectori ecclesie de Patrington,
cui nuper ecclesiam eandem contulimus, quatenus sine nostro
periculo poteris pro defensione possessionis et juris sui assistas
secundum legem efc consuetudinem regni Anglie bono modo.
Ita quod pro defectu tui, quo ad possessionem suam, non
inferatur eidem prejudicium aliquod vel gravamen. Et ad
hoc omnes tenentes nostros inducere non omittas. Vale.
Datis apud Burton xvj Kalendas Martii pontificatus nostri
anno quinto.
Citatio contra Aymonem de Carto, prepositum Beverlacensem,
super pluralitate beneficiorum.
f . 98 d. — T., Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo filio, Aymoni
de Carto, Preposito ecclesie nostre Beverlacensis, Salutem,
gratiam et benedictionem. Cum a jure canonico sit pro-
hibitum, ne quis plures dignitates, personatus, ecclesias, vel
beneficia ecclesiastica, quibus cura iminet animarum, absque
dispensatione Sedis Apostolice vel alio jure speciali et suffi-
ciente recipiat aut simul valeat retinere, ac tu precentoriam
ecclesie Lugdunensis et in ecclesiis Lausanensi et Beverlacensi
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 195
predicta preposituras, quibus omnibus et singulis est cura Lyons, and the
animarum aunexa, dudum recepisti, et postea retentis eisdem Lausanne and
r rectory of Dun-
vel earum aliquibus ecclesiam parochialem de Duncarvan, gar^van, Lismore,
Lisimorensis diocesis, curam habentem consimilem, tanquam
rector recepisti, tenuisti, et adhuc tenes unacum beneficiis
ecclesiasticis supradictis, fructus et proventus eorum om-
nium et singulorum percipiendo, et in usus tuos proprios
pro tue voluntatis libito convertendo, propter quod urgente
conscientia et ex officii nostri debito excitati, tenore presen-
tium, propter periculum quod ex dilatione amplioriim[m]inet
animarum, peremptorie te citamus, quod coram nobis vel
commissariis nostris seu commissario, pluribus aut uno, in
majori ecclesia nostra Eboracensi, die Martis proxima post
Dominicam, qua cantatur " Quasimodo geniti," sufficienter et
legitime compareas, dispensationes seu aliud jus speciale,
auctoritate quorum dicta beneficia ecclesiastica, curam ani-
marum habentia, canonice tenere valeas, exhibiturus, osten-
surus, facturus ulterius et recepturus, quod justum fuerit, et
canonicis convenerit institutis. Et certifices nos vel dictos
commissaries nostros aut commissarium, plures aut ununi, ad
dictos diem et locum, de die receptionis presentium, et super
Mis que facienda duxeris in premissis, per tuas patentes
litteras, harum seriem continentes.
Datis apud Burton vj Nonas Martii anno gratie niece0
tertio, et pontificatus nostri quinto.
Next follows the letter to the Dean of Harthill printed in
vol. i. pp. 7, 8.
Littera* directa Capitulo Beverlacensi ad monendum Prepositum
ejusdem, quod se facial ordinari, lit prebenda sua requirit.
f. 73. — Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis, I30f.
Capitulo nostro Beverlacensi, Salutem, gratiam et bene-
dictionem. Cum prebende in ecclesia nostra Beverlacensi
sacerdotales existant ex constitutione et ordinatione primaria
eorundem, ac Aymo de Carto, vester concanonicus et con-
frater, qui unam de dictis prebendis sacerdotalibus est in
eadem ecclesia assecutus, et prout intelleximus, secundum
quod dicta prebenda sua requirit, non dum est in presbiterum
* This letter appears to be the same us that printed from the Chapter Act
Book) Vol. I., p. 6, but has several paragraphs more.
196
RLEY MINST]
ordinatus, Nos ordination em sive institutionem ipsarum
prebendarum laudabilem inviolabiliter observare et effectui
debito, sicut officio nostro convenit, mancipare volentes, vobis
committimus [vices nostras] injungimus firmiter et mandamus,
quatinus in ecclesia predicta dictum Aymonem vice nostra
canonice moneatis et emcacitur inducatis, ut infra tempora
a sacris canonibus prefixa se faciat, prout predictum bene-
ficium seu prebenda sua requirit, in presbiterum ordinari,
sicut penam voluerit canonicam evitare.
Si autem dictus Ay mo personaliter inventus non fuerit,
tune hoc rnonitionis edictum in dicta ecclesia hac instanti die
Dominica, dum magna missa cantatur, procuratori suo, si
quern ibidem dimiserit, et nichilominus clericis et laicis, ac
notis proximis et amicis dicti Aymonis in lingua materna, ita
quod eum latere non valeafr, pupplice et solempniter exponatis,
tarn in dicta ecclesia in stallo dicti Aymonis, quam in domibus
suis ad dictam prebendam suam spectantibus, in quibus con-
suevit hactenus commorari, copiam presentium dimittentes.
Nos autem de die monitionis hujusmodi sibi facte, et super
omnibus que feceritis in premissis, reddatis absque morosa
tarditate, per vestras patentes litteras que harum tenorem
contineant, certiores. Yaleatis.
Datis apud Burton Nonas Martii anno gratie mccc° tertio,
et pontificatus nostri quinto.
1304.
27 March.
Chapter of
Blessed John of
Beverley to Abp.
Sending Thomas
of Grimsby to be
ordained deacon
on the title of
the charity newly
founded by King
Edward I. in the
Minster.
Titulus* Thome de Grymesby, clerici, ad cantariam ordinatam
per Regem in ecclesia Beverlacensi.
f. 73. — Reverendo in Christo patri, Domino Thome, Dei
gratia Eboracensi Archiepiscopo, Anglie Primati, suum humile
et devotum Capitulum Beati Johannis Beverlacensis,
Salutem, obedientiam, reverentiam et honorem.
Dilectum nobis in Christo Thomam de Grrymesby, clericum,
ad ordinem subdiaconatus in instantibus vestris ordinibus
celebrandis, vobis presentamus et mittimus, ordinandum ad
titulum cantarie quam Dominus Edwardus, Dei gratia Eex
Anglie illustris, in nostra ecclesia ordinavit, ad quam ipsum
admisimus suo perpetuo possidendam.
Paternitati vestre reverende supplicantes bumiliter et
* See above, Vol. I., p. 21, for Grimsby 's collation to the chantry by the
chapter three days after this .
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 197
devote,, quatinus eundem clericum ad ordinem prelibatum
sacrarum vestrarum manuum impositione dignemini pro-
movere.
Datis Beverlaci vj Kalendas Aprilis anno gratie m°ccc°
quarto.
Slip between ff. 99 and 100. —Thomas etc. Cum dilectus
filius noster Dominus Willelmus de Sothille, rector ecclesie 20 March.
T -r» , . . , . . .„ Abp. to Deans of
de Patrington. ipsms ecclesie possessionem pacmcam nostra East Riding and
.,' .j . . ., ,. £V. , . , -, Beverley Chapter
auctoritate sit adeptus, ac qmdam imqmtatis filii. ut intel- to protect
, . . -,1 . T. , . . ., ,. William of
leximus, contra ipsum et ecclesie sue predicte jura spiritualia
multipliciter machmantes et possessionem suam predictam rectory of
... , , x . . , ., Patrington.
injuriose subvertere et perturbare temerane nituntur nicnilo-
minus in ipsius Domini Willelmi quam nostre jurisdictionis
prejudicium et injuriam manifestam, Yobis firmiter injungendo
et districte precipiendo mandamus, quatenus, premissis
monitionibus canonicis, omnes illos qui ejus possessionem
predictam in ecclesia de Patrington supradicta cum suis
juribus et pertinentiis, clam vel palam, directe vel indirecte,
facto vel verbo, consilio, auxilio vel favore, violenter aut
injuriose, perturbare presumpserint, singulis diebus Domini cis,
solempnibus et festivis, vice et auctoritate nostra, publice et
solempniter, excommunicationis sententia innodatis. Et quid
in premissis f eceritis, nos, cum per dictum Dominum Willel-
mum fueritis requisiti, per vestras patentes litteras, harum
seriem continentes, curetis reddere certiores.
Datis apud Burton xiij Kalendas Aprilis, pontificatus nostri
anno quinto.
Et memorandum quod ista littera fuit quadrupplicata, et
inde fuit una littera directa Decano de Holdernesse, et alia
Decano de Dikering, et tertia Decano de Herthille, et quarta
Decano de Buccrosse, et una sub eadem forma capitulo
Beverlacensi.
Commissio ad recipiendum et examinandum jura et dispensations
Aymonis de Carto, Prepositi Beverlacensis super pluralitate
beneficwrum.
99 b. — Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis, 1304.
Magistris Johanni de Nassington, officiali nostro Eboracensi, AbP. to^Si of
et Ade de Hedon, personatum in nostra Eboracensi ecclesia SSSSThe
optinenti, Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. and Adam S '
BEVERLEY MINSTER
Hedon, a parson
(chantry priest)
in York Minster.
Commission to
examine the
rights and dis-
pensations to
Aymo de Carto
as to plurality
and proceed
thereon.
1304.
3 April.
Abp. to Mr.
William of
Greenfield,
Chancellor of
England and
canon of York.
Aymo de Carto
has induced the
King to send us a
royal letter
about the
Provostry and
wants it sealed
with the great
De vestre circumspectionis industria confidentes ad recipien-
dum, audiendum et examinandum jura et dispensations, que
Aymo de Carto, Prepositus ecclesie nostre Beverlacensis, pro se
duxerit exhibenda, auctoritate quorum precentoriam ecclesie
Lugdunensis et in ecclesiis Lausanensi et Beverlacensi predicta
preposituras, que dignitates vel personatus existunt, vel saltern
curam optinent animarum, et nicliilominus ecclesiam paro-
cliialein de Duncarvan, Lisimorensis diocesis, curam habentem
consimilem, quam post dictorum beneficiorum seu dignitatum
predictarum adeptionem recepit, simul debeat seu valeat
retinere juxta formam citationis peremptorie sibi facte
auctoritate nostra legitime super illis. Necnon ad proceden-
dum secundum naturam et qualitatem hujusmodi negotii
contra eum, et pronunciandum, statuendum, decernendum,
declarandum, diffiniendum et exequendum in premissis et
premissorum singulis, juxta canonicas sanctiones, vobis con-
junctim et divisim cum cohercionis canonice postestate com-
misimus vices nostras. Valeatis.
Datis apud Eueley iiij° Nonas Aprilis anno gratia rnccc0
quarto, et pontificatus nostri quinto.
Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo filio, amico suo
precordialissimo, Magistro Willelmo de Grenefeld, domini
nostri illustris Regis Anglie Cancellario, et Canonico ecclesie
nostre Eboracensis, Salutem cum benedictione et gratia Jesu
Christi. Audivimus jam de novo, quod quedam littera regia
nobis dirigenda sub certo tenore pro Aymone de Carto,
Preposito Beverlacensi, ad excitationem et suggestionem dicti
Aymonis concepta fuit et formata, cujus tenor em dominus
noster Eex Anglie illustris vobis remisit litteris suis quas pro
dicto Aymone direxit inclusum. Inter cetera per easdem
litteras vobis mandans quod litteram predictam sibi faceretis
sub magno ipsius Domini Regis sigillo signari, si hoc posset
fieri bono modo, et si inventum fuerit quod ante hec tempora
littera talis de cancellaria trans iverit, et si posset transire de
jure et absque injuria cujuscumque. Et quia factum super
quo dicta forma concipitur mere nititur gladio spirituali,
nee tangit aliqualiter temporalem, nee talis littera uncquam
prius per cancellariam transivit, que si ista vice concederetur
in maximum cederet nostre et totius ecclesie Dei et precipue
Anglicane prejudicium et injuriam ac enervationem eccle-
siastice libertatis, Rogamus specialiter amicitiam vestram
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 199
caram, quatinus ex quo casus iste per dominum nostrum NO such writ has
Eegem, ut audivimus, discretion! vestre committitur, pro- oXncery.anait
videre velitis, quod nulla littera de cancellaria exeat, per of the church if
quam juri nostro et ecclesie nostre Eboracensi, necnon et
Cantuariensi, et totius ecclesie Anglicane, possit in aliquo
derogari. Nee movere vos debent verba aliorum de curia,
quia melius scitis hujusmodi litter as ponder are, et que dampna
et injurie ex litteris talibus poterunt prelatis et toti ecclesie
provenire. Bene valeatis.
Datis apud North Cave iij Nonas Aprilis, pontificatus
nostri anno quinto.
Commissio in negotio moto contra Aymonem de Carto, Canoni-
cum et Prebendarium Beverlacensis ecclesie^ ad compellendum
eum ordinari in presbyterum, prout prebenda sua requirit.
f. 74.— T., Dei gratia, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis, . . , 1304.
Officiali nostro Eboracensi, et ejus commissario generali, AbP.2toOflfciaiof
Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem.
Dudum Aymonem de Carlo, Canonicum et Prebendarium
ecclesie nostre Beverlacensis, in qua prebende sacerdotales
existunt ex institutione primaria earundem, et qui unam de
dictis prebendis notorie sacerdotalem tenuit, et adhuc tenet,
canonice moneri fecimus semel et pluries, quod ipse, qui, ut
dicitur, tempore monitionis hujusmodi diaconus extitit, se
faceret, prout predictum beneficium seu prebenda sua re-
quirit, infra tempora a sacris canonibus prefixa, in presbi-
terum ordinari, sicut penam vellet canonicam evitare.
Et quia, ut intelleximus, idem Aymo, contemptis mom- but has despised
tionibus hujusmodi legitime sibi factis, statutis ternporibus summon mm and
-i • i . . ., . m • proceed to
ordmem hactenus post momtiones sibi factas effluxis, se facere sentence against
seu procurare non curavit ad sacerdotem promoveri.
Nos volentes, ut tenemur, statuta canonica in hoc casu
exequi contra eum, vobis, de quorum circumspectione et
industria plenam fiduciam gerimus, conjunctim et divisim ad
vocandum dictum Aymonem legitime et procedendum cano-
nice contra eum juxta monitiones predictas et certincatoria
earundem, et ad recipiendum probationes ipsius seu excusa-
tiones, si quas pro se super ordinibus suis facere, producere
seu allegare voluerit, et ad audiendum eum in forma juris, ac
etiam statuendum, diffiniendum, pronunciandum, sententian-
dum et exequendum super eisdem, vices nostras committimus,
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BEVERLEY MINSTER
cum cohercionis canonice potestate.* Proviso quod nobis
oportuno tempore rescribatis, quicquid in premissis feceritis,
et quoquomodo processeritis et pronunciaveritis super illis.
Yaleatis.
Datis apud Munketon ix Kalendas Juni ianno gratie rnccc0
quarto, et pontificatus nostri quinto.
1304.
3 June.
Abp. to John of
Nassington.
Collation to the
prebend lately
held by Aymo de
Carto.
Collatio prebende, que fuit Domini Aymonis de Carlo in ecclesia
Beverlaccnsi, facia Magistro Johanni de Nassington.
f. 74. — T., Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo filio, Magistro
Johanni de Nassington, presbitero, Salutem.
Meritis tue probitatis, inducimur, ut personam tuam nobis
et ecclesie nostre gratam favore benivolo prosequamur, hinc
est quod prebendam que nuper fuit Domini Aymonis de Carto
in ecclesie nostra Beverlacensi, vacantem, tibi cum suis
juribus et pertinentiis universis conferimus intuitu caritatis,
et te prebenda ipsa tradicione presentium investimus, quas
tibi in hujus rei testimonium sigillo nostro fieri fecimus com-
munitas. Valeas.
Datis apud Cawode iij Nonas Junii anno gratie rnccc0
quarto et pontificatus nostri quinto.
Installacio ejusdem.
Capitulo Beverlacensi, etc. Quia prebendam que fuit Domini
Aymonis de Carto in ecclesia nostra Beverlacensi, vacantem,
cum suis juribus et pertinentiis universis dilecto in Christo
filio, Magistro Johanni de Nassington, presbitero, contulimus
intuitu caritatis.
Devotioni vestre mandamus, quatinus ipsum in fratrem et
concanonicum admit tentes, ei stallum in choro et locum in
capitulo ratione ejusdem prebende debite assignetis, ipsumque
in corporalem possessionem prebende hujusmodi inducatis, et
defendatis inductum, in persona ejusdem modo consueto quod
vestrum est exequentes. Yaleatis. Datis ut supra proximo.
* Sentence of excommunication had already been pronounced on him. See
letter dated the day before of the official of the Court of York to the Chapter,
Vol. I., pp. 16-7.
ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE'S REGISTER. 201
Collatio prepositure Beverlacensis facta Magistro Roberto de
Alberwytf .
Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo filio, Magisfcro 1304.
Roberto de Alberwyk', presbitero, Salutem, gratiam et bene- Abp.
Mr- Rober* of
Abberwickto
Meritis tue probitatis inducimur, ut personam tuam, mul- Bevl?ieyyvacant
tiplicibus virtutum donis ornatam, favore benivolo prose-
quamur, liinc est, quod preposituram Beverlacensem, vacantem, Cart°]-
et ad collationem nostram spectantem, tibi de cujus devotione
sincera confidimus, cum suis juribus et pertinentiis universis
conferimus intuitu caritatis, et te prepositura ipsa, juribus et
pertinentiis ejusdem per nostrum anulum investimus; has
nostras patentes litteras sigillo nostro munitas tibi tradentes
in testimonium hujus rei.
Datis apud Cawode iij Nonas Junii anno gratie MCCC°
quarto, et pontificatus nostri quinto.
Inductio in eadem
Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis, capitulo Mandate to
nostro Beverlacensi, Salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. ind^wm.
Quia preposituram Beverlacensem vacantem, et ad nostram
collationem spectantem, dilecto in Christo filio, Magistro
Koberto de Alberwyk', presbitero, cum suis juribus et perti-
nentiis universis contulimus intuitu caritatis,
Yobis mandamus, quatinus ipsum, vel procuratorem suum
ejus nomine, in corporalem possessionem prepositure predicte,
jurium et pertinentiarum ejusdem inducatis, et defendatis
inductum, facientes sibi de ipsius prepositure fructibus et
proventibus integraliter responderi, et circa personam ipsius,
quod vestrum est, more solito ulterius exequentes, contra-
dictores et rebelles per censtiram ecclesiasticam canonice
compescendo. Yaleatis.
Datis apud Cawode iij Nonas Junii ut supra proximo.
Slip after fo. 74. — Thomas, Dei gratia, etc., dilecto in Christo 1304.
filio, Thome de Grimesby, ad quandam cantariam perpetuam in
nostra Beverlacensi ecclesia admisso, et ad titulum ejusdem can-
ordained on title
of the King's
* This was followed by the proxy to take possession issued by John of Nas-
sington. Vol. I. p. 19.
VOL. II. P
202
BEVERLEY MINSTER I
tarie, ad presentation em capituli nostri Beverlacensi, per nos in
subdiaconum et diaconum ordinato, Salutem, gratiam et bene-
dictionem. Tue devotionis precibus favorabiliter annuentes,
ut ad titulum cantarie predicte a quocumque episcopo regni
Anglie, Apostolice Sedis gratiam optinente, tibique manus
volente imponere, ad presbiteratus ordinem licite valeas pro-
moveri, non obstante quod in nostra diocesi beneficiatus
existis, dum tamen aliud canonicum non obsistat, liberam tibi
tenore presentium concedimus facultatem.
Datis apud Lanum, Idibus Septembris, anno gratie millesimo
trecentesimo quarto, et pontificatus nostri quinto.
REGISTER NEVILLE II.'
1381.
Register of the
Visitation of
Beverley Minster
by Abp. Alex-
ander Neville
begun 27 March
in 7th year of
his consecration.
138f
2 March.
Notice of Visita-
tion given in
Beverley Chapter
House.
Mittatur iste processus ligatus et sigillatus.
Processus sive Registrum reverendissim in Christo patris,
Domini Alexandri, permissione divina Eboracensis Archi-
episcopi, de anno Domini secundum cursum et computationem
Ecclesie Anglicane millesimo cccm° Ixxxj, consecrationis sue
anno septimo, in visitatione sua, habitus et accitatus in sua
[ecclesia] collegiata Beverlacensi, Eboracensis diocesis,
xxvij die mensis Martii initiatus et inchoatus, cum continua-
tione et prorogatione dierum sequentium.
In Dei nomine Amen. Anno ab incarnatione Domini
secundum cursum et computationem ecclesie Anglicane
millesimo cccmo lxxx°, pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo
patris et domini nostri, Domini Urbani, divina providentia
Pape sexti, anno tertio, indictione quarta, mensis Mertii (sic)
die secundo, in domo capitulari ecclesie collegiate Beati
Johannis Beverlacensis, discretus vir, Magister Radulphus
de Selby, in utroque jure bacallarius, Auditor causarum
reverendi patris, Domini Alexandri, Archiepiscopi Ebora-
censis, de cujus commissione infra patet, quasdam litteras
sigilli (sic) predicti reverendi patris, Domini Alexandri,
Eboracensis Archiepiscopi in cera rubra signatas, ex parte
* The whole of the volume is taken up with the great contest between the
Archbishop and the Chapter of Beverley,
ARCHBISHOP NEVILLE'S REGISTER. 203
ipsius reverend! patris exhibuit, efc ipsius litteras coram
quampluribus vicariis et aliis ministris ejusdem ecclesie
prefate prefato reverendo patre (sic) legi et publicari et alta
intelligibili voce exponi per me, notarium et scribam sub-
scriptum, requisivit, et hoc idem michi predictus reverendus
pater mandavit, quarum litterarum tenor sequitur et est tails : —
Alexander, permissione divina Eboracensis Archiepiscopus,
Anglie Primas, Apostolice Sedis Legatus, dilectis filiis, Capi-
tulo ecclesie nostre Beati Johannis Beverlacensis, Salutem,
gratiam et benediction em. Quia intendimus per Dei gratiam,
die Mercurii proximo post festum Annunciationis Beate
Marie Virginis, videlicet, xxvij [die] mensis Marcii proximo
future cum continuatione et prorogatione dierum subsequen-
tinus, quatenus opus fuerit, vos in capitulo vestro Beverla-
censis, necnon vicarios et clericos dicte ecclesie ac omnes
alios et singulos dicte ecclesie qualitercumque intitulatos seu
promotes, et in eadem ministrantes, ad recreationem animarum for the refresh-
vestrarum et suarum, personaliter intueri et visitationis
officium apud vos et eos, paternis affectibus excercere,
vos intitulatos, promotes, necnon vicarios, clericos et minis-
trantes supradictos tenore presentium peremptorie citamus,
quod vos omnes et singuli et ipsi, dicto die coram nobis vel person-
commissariis nostris personas vestras et suas ibidem voti-
vamque presentiam personalem filiali promptitudine person-
aliter pretendatis, et quilibet vestrum et suorum tempestive
pretendat, visitationem nostram nostraque salubria monita,
correctiones et injungenda cum debita ac devota reverentia,
prout vos et ipsos conjunctim et divisim premissa concernunt,
suscepturi, litteras ordinum suorum et vestrorum, ac titulos
quos habere pretenditis et pretendit in prebendis et beneficiis,
que optinetis et optinent, ac quilibet vestrum et eorum optinet
in ecclesia nostra antedicta, ostensuri, ulteriusque facturi
que, vobis et ipsis, utinain proficiat, sicut precepimus ad
salutem. Ad quos diem et locum confratres vestros nunc
absentes necnon omnes et singulos vicarios et clericos pro-
motos et ministrantes hujusmodi ad faciendum omnia et
singula premissa, prout vos et ipsos eorum quemlibet con-
tingunt, legitime convocetis. Nos super premissa certificantes
ad dictos diem et locum per litteras vestras patentes, que
harum seriem et nomina confratrum vicariorum clericorum et
ministrorum omnium dicte ecclesie nostre distincte et plenarie
representant. Feliciter in Domino valeatis. Scriptum in
p2
204
rERLEY MINSTER :
Sir Robert of
Lowthorpe, being
locum tenens of
the chapter.
manerio nostro Beverlacensi, xxvj die mensis Februarii anno
Domini M°cccmolxxx, et nostre consecrationis septimo.
Quas quidem litteras citatorias eodem die secunda mensis
Mertii de manu dicti Kudulphi, auditoris prefati, ego,
Johannes, notarius infrascriptus, recepi, et in presentia
Domini Koberti de Louthorpe, locum tenentis Capituli dicte
ecclesie, ut publice dicebatur et pro tali se gessit, et singulorum
vicariorum et ministrorum dicte ecclesie ibidem presentium
alta et intelligibili voce legi, publicavi et in volgari exposui,
ac hujusmodi litteras statim et incontinenti eodem die prefato
Domino Roberto locum tenenti Capituli exequendas contra
absentes de mandate dicti reverendi patris tradidi et liberavi,
presentibus venerabilibus et discretis magistris Kicardo de
Conyngston, legum doctore, OflBciali curie Eboracensis, Eoger
Pykeryng, rectore ecclesie parochialis de Holm, Eboracensis
diocesis, notario publico, ad premissa vocatis specialiter et
rogatis.
Commission to
Mr. Ralph of
Selby, LL.B.
to act as judicial
assessor in the
matter.
Com\_m\issio auditoris causarum.
Alexander, [etc. ut supra], dilecto filio, Magistro Radulpho
de Selby, in utroque jure bacallario, Salutem, gratiam et
benedictionem.
De vestris conscience puritate et circumspectione provida
plenius confidentes, vos in omnibus causis in audientia nostra
seu nostra cancellaria tarn ex officio [1 b] quam ad instantiam
partis motis seu movendis auditorem nostrum ac officii nostri
promotorem, et presertim in visitatione quam in capitulo
ecclesie nostre Beverlacensis intendimus favente Domino
excercere, tenore presentium preficimus et deputamus vobis-
que ad cognoscendum, procedendum, statuendum et diffinien-
dum, exequendum et expediendum, in, de et super premissis
et ea concernentibus cum suis incidentibus, emergentibus et
connexis, si et quatenus judicialem indaginem seu cause
cognitionem requirunt ceteraque omnia et singula facienda,
excercenda et expedienda, que in premissis et circa ea
necessaria fuerint vel oportuna, vobis committimus vices
nostras cum cujuslibet cohercionis canonice potestate. In
cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum fecimus hiis apponi.
Datis in manerio nostro de Cawode xxvj die mensis Februarii,
anno Domini millesimo cccmo octogesimo, et nostre consecra-
tionis septimo.
ARCHBISHOP NEVILLE'S REGISTER. 205
Institucio et juramentum nuncii sive cursoris.
Die xiiii dicti mensis Martii, apud Beverlacum. anno Appointment
. . J . . . , . . T 7 . -, . -, and oath of a
Domini, pontmcatu, indictione predictis, dictus reverendus messenger or
' r r runner for the
pater Johannem Stane de Beverlaco, nuncium. cursorem et Abp. during the
r ,-•.''-. visitation,
litterarum suarum portitorem mstituit, fecit et ordmavit, et
de fideli executione omnium et singulorum committendorum
ferre et portare litteratorie et verbo mandata quecumque
a curia dicti Domini Archiepiscopi emanenda citare et
fideliter refer re, ab ipso Johanne corporale mandavit per me,
notarium et scribam ipsius reverendi patris. infrascriptum
with an oath of
recepi, sacrosanctis tactis evangeliis, sacramentum, et ibidem fidelity,
dictus Johannes in manibus meis, tactis sacrosanctis evan-
geliis predictum de fideli omnium negotiorum sibi com-
mittendorum executione corporale prestitit juramentum, pre-
sentibus discretis magistris Bicardo de Conyngston, legum
doctor e, Officiali curie Eboracensis et Rogero Pykeryng,
notario publico, ad premissa vocatis specialiter et rogatis.
Littera patens de. metu amovendo.
Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes
littere pervenerint, Alexander [etc. ut supra], Salutem in
salutis Auctore. force-
Quia ex debito nostri officii pastoralis quosdam nostros
subditos, videlicet, canonicos, vicarios ceterosque ministros
ecclesie Beverlacensis qui correctione animarum et reforma-
tione debita eorundem ac cetera que in ipsa ecclesia invenient
reformanda, necnon ad subeundum visitationem nostram ad
certum diem competentem legitime fecimus evocari; ac
volentes casu, quo frivolas aut malitiosas metus aut timoris
vellent allegare excusationes, illarum excusationum viam
precludere ac meticulosis, si qui sunt, ultra quam tenemur ex
paterna consulere pietate.
Palam ac publice protestamur, quod non est, nee fuit,
intentionis nostre, voluntatis, nee propositi quovismodo, quod
canonici, vicarii vel ministri ecclesie nostre Beverlacensis, seu
aliqui eorundem coram nobis pro reformatione debita eorum,
que ad nostram ordinariam potestatem pertinent, reformanda hitei-fere with°
citati, in veniendo, stando vel, cum oportunum fuerit, rece-
dendo, in personis eorum vel suorum per se, alium, seu alios
206
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
impediantur perturbentur, inquietentur vel male aliqualiter
pertractentur, et ut suspicionem contrariam omnimodam
depellamus, et securitati illorum omnium et singulorum
habundantiori cautela, qua possimus, provid eamus, Johanni
de Scardeburgh, persone publice infrascripte, nomine eorum
omnium et singulorum securitatem hujusmodi in veniendo
stando et, cum licuerit, recedendo a nobis stipulanti sub
ypoteca omnium bonorum nostrorum promisimus et promitti-
mus, ac ad eandem servandam, quantum in nobis est vel
nostris, per presentes nos et nostra firmiter obligamus, adeo
quod, nee per nos, nee per aliquos nostrorum servitorum seu
subditorum quorumcumque ipsos vel eorum aliquem seu
nomine eorum quemcumque in veniendo, stando, et, cum
oportunum fuerit, recedendo, impediemus vel perturbabimus
vel violentiam aliqualiter faciemus nee fieri procurabimus
quasimodo.
and requires MS Quapropter subditos nostros omnes et singulos ubilibet
subjects and asks . r r
his friends on no constitutes requirimus et monemus, ac eis sub "pena excom-
account to inter- ..... . ,
fere with them, municationis majoris, quam in contra facientes, canonica
monitione premissa, ferimus in hiis scriptis, firmiter precipi-
endo mandamus, amicos vero nostros et non subditos rogamus
attente et hortamur in Domino, ne ipsi seu aliquis eorundem
posse, alium seu alios, arte vel ingenio seu quocumque quesito
colore contra eosdem canonicos seu ministros dicte ecclesie
Beverlacensis, seu eorum aliquem aut servitorum eorundem
quicquid attemptent seu attemptet, faciant seu faciat, aliqua-
liter fieri seu attemptari, quominus canonicis et ministris
predictis et eorum servitoribus libera sit facultas a[b]sque
diflficultate, metu, cruciatu corporis, molestia vel injuria aut
perturbatione quacumque ad ecclesiam Beverlacensem libere
accedendi et veniendi, et ibidem ad libitum standi, et cum eis
placuerit recedendi, a[b]sque eo quod nos vel aliquis servito-
rum seu subditorum nostrorum eis vel eorum alicui molestiam
vel injuriam inferat qualemcumque. Et si metum qualem-
cumque allegaverint seu allegaverit aliquis eorundem ad
conducendum eos et eorum quemlibet in salva custodia, ac
reducendum salvos et incolumes per nostros subditos et alios
amicos nostros ofrerimus nos paratos, quod ad vestram et
vestrum cujuslibet ac dictorum canonicorum vicariorum ac
ministrorum quorumcumque notitiam deducimus per pre-
sentes.
Datis apud Beverlacum xvij die mensis Martii anno Domini
millesimo cccmo octogesimo, et nostre consecrationis septimo.
ARCHBISHOP NEVILLE'S REGISTER. 207
Et publicata fuit presens littera et protestatio in ecclesia
Beati Nicholai Beverlacensis in sermone publico ad populum fnharpU1buc3verley'
per quendam venerabilem patrem, fratrem Kobertum, Dei
gratia Donkeldensem Episcopum solempniter proposito, pre- Dunkeld-
sentibus dicte ecclesie vicariis ac aliis ministris, necnon
Johanne Clonne, Adam Acome, et aliis quampluribus, tarn
viris et mulieribus parochianis in multitudine copiosa, die et
loco predictis, et me Johanne notario infrascripto.
Publicacio protestacionis de metu com[m]ovendo et de securitate
in ecclesia Beverlacensi.
Item xxv die dicti mensis Martii notificata et publicata erat Also m church of
-,.. .. .,._. -r» T , i Friars Preachers
predicta protestatio in ecclesia Fratrum Predicatorum apud of Beveriey,
Beverlacum, dicto reverendo patre ibidem in pontificalibus bratmg Mass m
, , « 11 . ... ,.. . . full pontificals,
missam celebrante. coram Cancellano, vicarifs et aliis minis- before the chan-
...... ,. it., T T,-,T « , cellor and others
tris dicte ecclesie collegiate, ac populi multitudine copiosa, et of the Minster.
me Johanne, notario infrascripto.
Publicacio.
Idem dicto die xvij mensis Martii idem reverendus [pater] Also ordered to
mandavit Domino Kogero Pykeryng, notario publico, publicare Yo?k anJSn-11
dictam protestationem et securitatem aliquo die solempni in coln Cathedrals-
ecclesia Eboracensi. Quam quidem protestationem sive se-
curitatem mandavit idem reverendus pater Magistro Thome
de Bucton, in legibus bacallario, publicare in ecclesia *
Lincolniensi consimiliter aliquo die solempni coram populo
ad omnem vim et effectum ejusdem.
Die xxvj dicti mensis, anno predicto, coram reverendo se March.
patre predicto, apud Beverlacum, Eboracensis diocesis, con-
stitutus, Magister Johannes Kele, in camera peramenti ipsius
reverendi patris, quasdam scripturas exhibuit, et coram ipso
legit et responsum petiit super hiis sibi dari. Qui quidem dznner-
reverendus pater sibi diem crastinum pro tune immediate
sequentem, videlicet xxvij diem dicti mensis, ad audiendum
responsionem suam super premissis in ecclesia Sancti Jo-
hannis Beverlacensis statuit et etiam assignavit, ac ipsum
* This was because of Richard of llavenser ex-proyost and a canon, who was
Archdeacon of Lincoln and lived there.
208
BEVERLEY MINSTER:
letters in
question.
Johannem et alios socios suos ad prandendum cum eo illo die
benivole invitavit. Qui cum eo pransi fuerunt eodem die.
Tenor hujusmodi scripturarum sequitur et est talis.
20 March.
S. Paul's
Cathedral.
Appeal of the
Chapter of
Beverley through
William English,
their proctor.
By the original
foundation, and
ancient and
approved custom
for upwards of
60 years, and
from time im-
memorial,
the church con-
sisted of seven
canons and a new
prebend after-
wards created,
called the eighth,
now held by Sir
Nicholas of
Louth, who are
bound to reside
certain months
in the year, who
receive the pro-
fits and oblations
in the church ;
2. that the
canons, vicars,
and other
ministers are
subject to the
jurisdiction of
Appellacio Capituli ecclesie Beverlacensis.
In Dei nomine Amen. Anno ab incarnatione Domini
secundum cursum et computationem ecclesie Anglicane
millesimo cccmo octogesimo, indictione quarta, pontificatus
sanctissimi in Christo patris domini nostri, Domini Urbani,
divina providentia Pape sexti, anno tertio, mensis Martii die
vicesimo, in niei notarii publici et testium subscriptorum
presentia personaliter constitutus, discretus vir, Willelmus
Englisshe, clericus, Bboracensis diocesis, procurator et pro-
curatoris nomine venerabilium virorum, Capituli ecclesie
collegiate Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis dicte Eboracensis
diocesis, in ecclesia Sancti Pauli Londoniensis constitutus
personaliter, quasdam provocationem et appellationem in
scriptis redactas legit et interposuit atque Apostolos petiit,
protestatus [2 b] fuit et juravit sub hac forma verborum : —
In Dei nomine Amen. Coram vobis discretis viris et
autenticis personis, ego, Willelmus Englesshe, clericus,
Eboracensis diocesis, procurator et procuratoris nomine
venerabilium virorum Capituli ecclesie collegiate Sancti
Johannis Beverlacensis, dicte Eboracensis diocesis, pro-
pono et dico, quod, licet a prima fundatione dicte ecclesie
collegiate, necnon de usu, more, observantia, et antiqua et
approbata et hactenus pacifice et in[con]cusse consuetudine
prescripta, a x, xx, xxx, xl, 1, Ix, etc. annis et ultra, necnon a
tempore et per tempus cujus contrarii memoria hominum non
existit, et citra, observata, dicta ecclesia collegiata fuit
et erat fundata de septem Canonicis in numero dumtaxat, ac
de novo una alia prebenda dicta octava legitime creata,
quam Dominus Nicholaus de Louth, dictus octavus Canonicus
ipsius ecclesie optinet in presenti, qui certis mensibus annis
singulis residere tenentur in eadem ecclesia, ad quos obven-
tiones et emolumenta quecunque ad dictam ecclesiam pro-
venientia debeant pertinere, et inter eos distribui et dividi,
a[b]sque eo quod unquam aliquo tempore erant plures
canonici in numero, qui locum in capitulo habuerunt ; quod-
que canonici, vicarii et alii ministri dicte ecclesie ac familiares
ARCHBISHOP NEVILLE'S REGISTER. 209
eorundem a dictis temporibus, et citra, et per ipsa tempora the chapter of
fuerunt, erant et sunt, inmediate subditi et subject! juris-
diction! Capituli collegiate Beati Johannis Beverlacensis
predicte et quod a dictis temporibus et citra, et per
ipsa tempora, prim aria cognitio quarumcunque causarum
civilium et criminalium ad forum ecclesiasticum spectan-
tium, que inter canonicos vicarios et alios ministros, ac
eorum familiares aliasque personas jurisdictione dicte ecclesie ^ the°Sste/n-nss
pro tempore orte fuerunt, ac etiam visitatio, inquisitio, cor- £nce of ai°ig"
rectio et punitio quorumcumque excessuum, que committe-
bantur pro tempore et committuntur per predictos canonicos,
vicarios, presbiteros et alios ministros, et eorum familiares *nd correct^ of
dicte ecclesie collegiate et presertim infra jurisdictionem
Capituli predict!; ac omnes et omnimodas jurisdictions
primarias et rnediatas dictorum canonicorum, vicariorum,
presbiterorum ministrorum et eorum familiarium, aliarum
[que] personarum infra jurisdictionem dicti Capituli com- wills'
morantium et larem foventium ; necnon aperitio confir-
matio, probatio testamentorum Canonicorum, vicariorum, pres-
biterorum et aliorum ministrorum dicte ecclesie collegiate
Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis, ministrantium in eadem ac
familiarium eorundem, aliarumque personarum infra jurisdic-
tionem dicti Capituli inhabitantium, et de bonis eorundem Suof The good's
testantium, et in eorum ultima voluntate disponentium, ac Stest0aSteedving
etiam bonorum dispositio et administratio eorundem canoni-
corum, vicariorum, presbiterorum, aliorumque ministrorum
ipsius ecclesie collegiate, ac familiarium eorundem aliarumque
personarum jurisdictions dicti Capituli ab intestato deceden-
tium, necnon ad celebrandum et celebrari faciendum divina also the ceiebra-
. , ti°n °f services
in oratoms dictorum canomcorum ipsius ecclesie collegiate in the oratories
Sancti Johannis coram eis et suis familiaribus infra jurisdic- canons in the
tionem dicti Capituli scituatis ; quodque a dictis temporibus church ;
et citra et per ipsa tempora, ad sedendum in certis locis infra ^certain^iafes
jurisdictionem dicti Capituli deputatis ad Auditorem causarum, of the judicial
deputatum per Capitulum dicte ecclesie collegiate ad audi- Pfjj^ ^ j^r
endum et fine debito terminandum causas vertentes inter and determine
all causes be-
personas jurisdictionis dicti Capituli ;
Necnon quod a dictis temporibus et citra et per ipsa chapter.
tempora ad Capitulum dicte ecclesie collegiate ad habendum Also the right to
^ have an apparitor
unum aparitorem. ministrum seu bedellum, ad portandum or bedei to carry
. . . 1 a rod or mace,
coram Capitulo in processionibus factis et faciendis in ecclesia before the
. Chapter in pro-
predicta, et maxime in diebus soiempnibus, unam virgam seu cessions in the
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
church, espe-
cially on fast
days, and to
summon people
before the
assessor.
The seven canons
and the eighth
were and are in
peaceful, or
quasi peaceful
and resident
according to the
statutes ;
and the Chapter
also
baculum, et ad precedendum capitulum in processione, necnon
ad citandum personas quascumque ad comparendum coram
auditore Capituli predict! super articulis forum conscientie
concernentibus, et aliis ad forum dicti capituli et eorum
jurisdictionem pertinentibus in hac parte, pertinuisset, perti-
nere consuevit et pertinet, solum et insolidum ad Capitulum
ecclesie collegiate Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis predicte ;
Quodque prefati domini mei, Capitulum ecclesie collegiate
predicte a dictis temporibus et citra, et per ipsa tempora
fuerunt, et erant et sunt in possessione [pacifica], seu quasi
pacifica et quieta. Tenendum et habendum solum numerum
septem Canonicorum ab antique fundatorum, ac canonicatus
et prebende de novo fundate, que octava dicitur; sic quod octo
eauonici prebendati sint in dicta ecclesia in presenti residentes,
et non plures, qui stallum in choro et locum in capitulo seu
vocem habuerint, totque in ipsa ecclesia fuerunt et sunt
residentes pro tempore, secundum statuta et consuetudines
ecclesie antedicte approbata et prescripta dictique octavi
canonici redditus, oblationes, obventiones et emolumenta que-
cumque ad dictam ecclesiam collegiatam Sancti Johannis
Beverlacensis pertinentia perceperunt et in possessione per-
cipiendi fuerunt et erant et sunt, solum et insolidum, salva
controversia presenti ;
Quodque prefatum Capitulum ecclesie Sancti Johannis
Beverlacensis predicte a dictis temporibus et citra et per ipsa
tempora fuerunt et erant et sunt in possessione pacifica, seu
quasi pacifica, et quieta, ad omnes causas, Jites, questiones seu
controversias ad forum ecclesiasticum spectantes motas pro
tempore, et inter canonicos, vicarios, presbiteros et alios
ministros et familiares eorundem dicte ecclesie collegiate,
seu que eis ab aliis movebantur et mote erant jure eorum per
eorum Auditorem seu commissarium audiendi et in eisdem
procedendi et cognoscendi, et easdem per dictos Auditores
seu commissarios et eorum sententias diffinitivas decidendi et
diffiniendi, ipsasque audiverunt pro tempore, deciderunt et
diifinierunt, easdemque audiverunt, deciderunt, decidunt et
difimierunt; necnon [3] ad canonicos, presbiteros et alios
ministros dicte ecclesie, ipsorumque familiares ac alios
quoscumque incolas, et inhabitantes loca ad Capitulum dicte
ecclesie spectantia, et infra eorum jurisdictionem et diocesim
Eboracensem scituata visitandi et de eorum excessibus
inquirendi, excessusque eorundem, cum casus occurrant,
corrigendi, testamentaque canonicorum dictorum, vicariorum,
ARCHBISHOP NEVILLE'S REGISTER. 211
presbiterorum et aliorum ministrorum familiariumque eorun-
dem dicte ecclesie, et aliorum quorumcumque infra juris-
dictionem dicti Capituli testantium, et eorum ultimas
voluntates coram Capitulo, seu ipsius capituli Auditore,
apperiendi insinuandi et probandi, administrationemque
bonorum canonicorum, vicariorum, presbiterorum et aliorum
ministrorum dicte ecclesie ipsorumque familiarum de bonis
eorumdem testantium et in eorum ultima voluntate disponen-
tium, executorum in testamentis dictorum testantium nomina-
torum, seu aliorum quorumcumque jurisdictionis dicti capituli
et infra earn ab intestato pro tempore decedentium, viris
fidedignis per Capitulum dicte ecclesie collegiate, seu
Auditorem ejusdem, nominandis committendi, ac etiam ab
eisdem juramentum de faciendo fidele inventarium et fideliter
in bonis hujusmodi administrando, ac compotum fidelem
reddendo et recipiendo; ac etiam divina in eorum oratoriis
infra jurisdictionem dicti Capituli scituatis, coram se et
familiaribus suis et aliis supervenientibus ut premittitur,
celebrandi et celebrari faciendi. Auditorem causarum ad
audiendum causas ad jurisdictionem dicti Capituli pertinentes,
necnon apparitorem seu ministrum dicti Capituli ad com-
parendum coram Auditore predicto preficiendi ; prefatumque
Capitulum pro tempore a dictis temporibus et citra et per
ipsa tempora fuerunt erant et suat in possessione pacifica
et quieta jurisdictionis predict e et juris exercendi juris-
dictionem hujusmodi in premissis capitulis omnibus et
singulis.
Ipsaque iurisdictione dictum Capitulum usum fuit et ute- and the chapter
i J » < now uses and
batur suis temporibus et modernis utitur ut prefertur solum
et insolidum et jure eorum et Capituli predicti temporibus
supradictis, reverendis in Christo patribus dominis Archiepis-
copis ac Decano et capitulo ecclesie Eboracensis pro tempore
existentibus, necnon reverendo patre, Domino Alexandro,
ArcMepiscopo Eboracensi moderno, premissa omnia et singula
scientibus et scire volentibus, et non contradicentibus seu
reclamantibus set permittentibus et approbantibus, tarn tacite
quam expresse, ac ratum et gratum habentibus usque ad
tempus et tempore gravaminum infrascriptorum.
Quodque pro parte dicti Capituli ecclesie collegiate pre- The chapter
-.•;,*. .• -IT • reasonably feaf-
dicte, domino rum meorum, metuentmm ex quibusdam causis ing grievous
probabilibus et verisimilibus conjecturis grave sibi posse in
premissis, et circa ea generari prejudicium infuturum, ne
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
have appealed to
the Apostolic
Yet the Arch-
bishop in spite o£
the appeal, pre-
tending though
by no means
truly that he has
a canonry and
prebend in the
Minster, by
reason of which
he may reside
and receive pro-
fits and daily dis-
tributions,
though he has a
portion, com-
monly called a
corrody, only ;
and though he
has a stall in
choir has no
place or voice in
Chapter.
quis vel qui in ipsius Capituli Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis,
dominorum meorum, quicquam circa premissa attemptent, seu
faciant vel faciat aliqualiter attemptari, citando, monendo,
inquirendo, visitando, interdicendo, suspendendo, excommuni-
cando, sequestrando seu alio modo gravando ante hec tempora
extitit ad Sedem Apostolicam provocatio, et provocandi appel-
latio, tamen predictus reverendus pater Dominus Alexander,
Archiepiscopus Eboracensis modernus, post et contra provo-
cationes appellationes hujusrnodi pro parte predicti Capituli
Beverlacensis ad Sedem supradictam ut premittitur, interpo-
sitas, et postquam certam et indubitatam notitiam habuit de
eisdem, asserens se, licet minus vere, in ecclesia collegiata
Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis predicta canonicatum et pre-
bendam* optinere, occasione cujus licuit sibi et licet, ut
asserit, sibi residentiam facere in dicta ecclesia collegiata, et
in ea tanquam canonicus residere et emolumenta et distribu-
tiones cotidianas percipere, cum idem Dominus Archiepiscopus
et predecessores sui pro tempore, a dictis temporibus et citra
et per ipsa tempora, solum habuerunt, et archiepiscopus
modernus habet, ut dicitur, in dicta ecclesia collegiata unam
portionem, sive quoddam corrodium vulgariter nuncupatum,
et licet stallum in choro Archiepiscopi pro tempore, ut preten-
ditur, habuissent, tamen locum in capitulo non habuerunt,
neque eorum aliquis habuit, set loco et voce tanquam canonici
in domo capitulari dicte ecclesie caruerunt, et eorum quilibet
caruit, et caret Archiepiscopus modernus in presenti, et carere
debet infuturum, prefatique Archiepiscopi Eboracenses pro
tempore non consueverunt ad actus capitulares admitti,f nee
admittebatur aliquis tempore suo, iidemque Archiepiscopi pro
tempore de residendo in dicta ecclesia tanquam canonici se a
dictis temporibus et citra abstinuerunt et eorum quilibet se
abstinuit nee in eadem residebantj nee emolumenta aliqua
tanquam canonici dicte ecclesie vendicabant sicuti nee de jure
poterant vendicare, nititur residentiam facere in dicta ecclesia
personalem, affectans emolumenta ad dictum Capitulum per-
* Marginal note by the Archbishop. Nota : quod habet prebendam in ipsa
ecclesia sicut patet per producta tua, et ilia prebenda habet omnia alia insignia,
sicut habent alie prebende canonicales.
t Here the Archbishop has written. Nota : Non petiit se admitti, quod non
debet nocere nee prejudicare Archiepiscopo qui wit (sic) uti jure suo. He has
not asked to be admitted, but that ought not to prejudice any archbishop who
wishes to exercise his right to be admitted.
J Archbishop's note : Et male ; ideo modernus Archiepiscopus purgabit negli-
gentiam predecessorum suorum.
ARCHBISHOP NEVILLE'S REGISTER. 213
tinentia, ex quibus opera et f abrica dicte ecclesie sustentantur,*
auferre et tollere et in usus suos convertere.
Idemque Archiepiscopus asserens se habere iurisdictionem AndtheArch-
. . . ,., v J. . , ,. A bishop asserts
in canomcos, vicanos, presbiteros et alios niinistros dicte jurisdiction over
, „ . , . ., . . the canons, &c.,
ecclesie et eorum iamiliares, necnon aperiendi, insinuandi et and probate of
, j. . . . . T ., their wills,
probandi testamenta canomcorum, vicanorum, presbiterorum though he ha» no
et aliorum ministrorum et f amiliarum dicte ecclesie, ac etiam exceSpt1Cby0way of
disponendi de bonis ab intestato decendentium cum nullam
. T ,• • T i i i •!_ 11 i • • i tors of the will of
jurisdictionem inmediate nabuit seu nabeat in eisdem, seu sir Robert of
T ..„. -.. tt , i Beyerley, late
alias, nisi iuisset ad ipsum pro tempore appellatum ; t canon, though it
canonicos, vicarios et alios ministros dicte ecclesie, necnon S^the1™
executores testamenti bone memorie Domini Robert! de appear betora bin
Beverlaco canonic! dicte ecclesie pro tempore, cujus in- bAMeat.too
sinuatio testamenti pertinuit ad Capitulum predictum, et tbougb personal
cor am dicto Capitulo seu ejus Audi tore probatum fuit, et TegSyTequiredf
administratio bonorum diet! defunct! eisdem executoribus in owing to toe
forma juris commissa et per eos admissa, ad comparendum
coram eo seu commissariis personaliter in domo capitular!
ecclesie predicte ad terminum peremptorium et minus brevem
cum de jure non requiratur personalis comparitio in hac
parte, nee tutus esset accessus ad presentiam domini Archi-
episcopi in hac parte propter ipsius et suorum sevitiam et
timorem.
Super jurisdictione diet! Capituli et singular! juris- Alsohehas
dictione canonicorum, ad quos jurisdictio pertinet in Cann01n:onld tbe
prebendis eorundem, citari mandavit et fecit, nulla causa noreasonabie
* ... . . . . . cause expressed to
rationabili in litteris citatoriis expressa, et sic ad actum anactinde-
r terminate, to
incertum confusum et indeterminatum, ad quern dictum ^ere^otboun^
Capitulum ac singulares canonic!, vicarii, presbiteri et toaPPear-
ministri dicte ecclesie non tenentur comparere, posito
quod alia citacio de se esset certa, cum jurisdictio diet! But a second
Capituli superius allegata omni notorietate sic notoria et a
dictis temporibus et citra et per ipsa tempora legitime sit
prescripta et pacifice observata, quod probacione non eget,
set constatt notorie domino Archiepiscopo predicto, quod ad
earn probandam coram eo Capitulum predictum, domini mei,
artari non possunt, qui est adversarius in hac causa et
prefatis doininis meis, Capitulo predicto et singulis canonicis
ejusdem nimium suspectus in hac parte.
Premissa gravamina predicto Capitulo, dominis meis, et
* Marginal note : Cave, quia falsum narra[tur].
f Marginal note : Habuisti xxvj dies ut supra patet in citatoria.
\ Marginal note : Nota, Archiepiscopus est tuus ordinarins.
214
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
These injuries has
Archbishop in-
flicted on my
principals, the
Chapter therefore
appeals against
the summons of
the Archbishop.
Placing the
canons, &c., and
all concerned,
under the pro-
tection of the
Papal Court.
singulis personis ejusdem intulit idem de-minus Archiepiscopus
ipsosque multipliciter fatigavit et fatigat in ipsorum Capituli,
dominorum meorum, et singulorum canonicorum aliorumque
ministrorum dicte ecclesie collegiate Sancti Johannis Bever-
lacensis predicte prejudicium non modicum et gravamen et
scandalum plurimorum. Unde ego Willelmus, procurator
predictus, sentiens dominos meos Capitulum ecclesie colle-
giate predicte et singulares canonicos, vicarios, presbiteros et
ministros et me eorum nomine in premissis et eorum quod-
libet indebite gravatos a mandate citationis et citatione
predictis ac termini comparitionis assignatione et indebita
fatigatione, necnon ab omnibus et singulis gravaminibus pre-
diotis, et que ex eis colligi possunt et eorum occasione ad
sacrosanctam Sedem Apostolicam et dominum nostrum Papam
in hiis scrip tis appello, et Apostolos peto, primo secundo
et tertio, instanter, instantius et instantissime, michi dari
fieri ; et super appellatione mea predicta subiciens predictos
dominos meos Capitulum ecclesie collegiate predicte, necnon
singulares canonicos, vicarios presbiteros et alios dicte ecclesie
ministros et eorum familiares ejusdem ecclesie quorum interest
in hac parte, ac me eorum nomine, et omnes in hac parte
eisdem adherentes et adherere volentes, protection! et defen-
sioni curie antedicte. Et juro * ad hec sancta Dei evangelia
per me corporaliter tacta, quod non sunt decem dies elapsi
postquam Capitulo ecclesie collegiate predicte dommis meis
primo innotuit de gravaminibus predictis et singulis
eorundem, et quid ego Willelmus procurator predictus
metuens nichillominus ex causis probabilibus et verisimilibus
conjecturis indiciis, et comminationibus quampluribus per
prefatum dominum Archiepiscopum, suos Officiates, commis-
sarios et ministros, de ipsius auctoritate et mandato in pre-
missis, et circa ea nonnulla alia gravamina per eum comminata
prefatis dominis meis Capitulo ecclesie collegiate predicte ac
canonicis, vicariis, presbiteris et aliis ministris, et eorum
familiaribus ejusdem [ecclesie] posse infer ri infuturum, ne
predictus dominus Archiepiscopus Officiales, commissarii seu
ministri sui, vel alii quicumque, de ipsius auctoritate, commis-
sione seu mandato in prejudicium dictorum dominorum
meorum Capituli predicti aut juris diet ion is eorundem aliquos
familiares suos infra parochiam Sancti Martini in villa
* Archbishop's comment at side : Tu e.s perjurus.
ABCHEISHOP NEVILLE'S REGISTER. 215
Beverlacensi commorantes ad ecclesiatica sacramenta admit-
tere presumant sine licentia Capituli aut canonic! et preben-
darii prebende Sancti Martini predicte in prejudicium juris-
dictionis dicti Capituli prefatique canonici et prebendarii, cum
ipsi familiares sint parochiani dicte ecclesie et teneantur eccle-
siastica sacramenta recipere in eadem : Item cum prefectio
et ammotio Officiariorum ut Camerarii, Auditoris Causarum
Capituli, Magistri fabrice ecclesie et aliorum quorumcumque
a dictis temporibus et citra et per ipsa tempora ad Capitulum
pertinuit, pertinere consuevit et pertinet, fuitque semper
Capitulum predictum a dictis temporibus et citra efc per ipsa
tempora in possessione preficiendi et ammovendi dictos Offi-
ciarios pro tempore, prout dicto Capitulo expediens videbatur,
ipsosque prefecerunt et ammoverunt et ammovent, Ne idem
Archiepiscopus circa premissa, et ne oratoria canonicorum
de facto suspend at, cum de jure sibi hoc non liceat, et idem
Archiepiscopus excercendo jurisdictionem suam in locis
pertinentibus ad jurisdictionem Capituli predicti, et ne com-
pellat predictus Archiepiscopus ministros ecclesie, vel eorum
aliquem, prestare sibi obedientiam juratam* cum ad hoc non
teneantur, quicquam attemptent seu attempt et, contra dictum
Capitulum, canonicos, vicarios, presbiteros et ministros, et
eorum familiares seu alios quoscumque de jurisdictione
Capituli existentes, occasione premissorum seu alicujus
capituli vel articuli eorundem, citando, monendo,suspendendo,
interdicendo, visitando, inquirendo, sequestrando, excommuni-
cando seu alio quovismodo procedendo, seu gravando, ad
dictam Sedem Apostolicam et dominum nostrum Papam in
hiis scriptis iterum provoco et appello et Apostolos iterum
peto, primo secundo et tertio, instanter, instantius et instan-
tissime michi dari efc fieri super provocatione mea predicta
quatenus dandi sint Apostoli in hoc casu.
Protestor etiam ego, procurator predictus, quod liceat
michi predictas appellationem et provocationem meas et
eorum quamlibet corrigere et emendare eisdemque et earum
cuilibet, si opus fuerit, addere et detrahere, ipsasque omni-
bus et singulis quorum interest notificare et intimare qua-
tenus tutus accessus ad presentiam dicti do mini Archiepis-
copi patere possit, appellationemque et provocationem meas
(4) predictas in eventu prosequi cum effectu pro loco et tern-
pore oportunis.
* Marginal note : Fatis de manual!. The first word has been altered. ? Faciens
de manual!.
216
BEVERLEY MINi
Acta sunt hec prout suprascribuntur et recitantur anno,
indictione, pontificatu, mense, die et loco predictis, presen-
tibus discretis viris, Dominis Nicholao de Wessburne, rectore
ecclesie parochialis de Laufare Magdalene* Londoniensis
diocesis, Thoma Dowker, presbitero, et Johanne Ferrom,
clerico, Dunolmensis et Cicestrensis diocesium testibus ad pre-
missa vocatis specialiter et rogatis.
Et ego Eicardus de Strensalle, clericus Eboracensis, pub-
licus auctoritate Apostolica notarius, premisse appellationis
interposition! et lecture, Apostolorum petitionis juramenti pre-
stationi et protestation! predictis, necnon omnibus et singulis
supradictis dum, sic ut premittitur, per dictum Willelmum
procuratorem f supradictum agerentur et fierent anno, in-
dictione, pontificatu, mense et loco predictis una cum pre-
nominatis testibus personaliter presens interf ui eaque omnia
et singula sic fieri vidi et audivi, et diversis et arduis occu-
patus negotiis hoc instrumentum per alium scribi feci, publi-
cari et in hanc publicam formam redegi, signoque et nomine
meis consuetis signari, rogatus et requisitus per dictum
Willelmum procuratorem, in fidem et testimonium omnium et
singulorum premissorum.
21 March.
S. Martin's,
Ludgate.
Appeal of Chapter
of Beverley to
Pope Urban VI.,
by William
English, clerk,
their proctor.
Appellatio Capituli Ecclesie Beverlacensis.
In Dei nomine Amen. Anno ab incarnatione Ejusdem
secundum cursum et computationem Ecclesie Anglicane mil-
lesimo cccmo octogesimo, indictione quarta, pontificatus
sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri, Domini Urbani,
divina providentia Pape sexti, anno tertio, mensis Mertii die
vicesimo primo, in mei notarii publici et testium subscrip-
torum presentia, discretus vir, Willelmus Englisshe, clericus,
Eboracensis diocesis,f procurator et procuratoris nomine
venerabilium virorum Capituli ecclesie collegiate Sancti
Johannis Beverlacensis, dicte Eboracensis diocesis, in ecclesia
parochiali Sancti Mertini in Ludgate Londoniis personaliter
constitutus, quamdam appellationem in scriptis redactam
legit et interposuit atque Apostolos petiit, protestans (sic)
fuit et juravit sub hac forma verborum.
In Dei nomine Amen. Coram vobis discretis viris autentica
persona et testibus ego, Willelmus Englisshe, procurator
* Laver Magdalen in Essex.
f Marginal note : Dooe de mandate.
ARCHBISHOP NEVILLE'S REGISTER. 217
venerabilium virorum Capituli ecclesie collegiate Sancti
Johannis Beverlacensis, Eboracensis diocesis, nomine pro- By ancient cus-
*t > torn and prescrip-
curatoris dicti Capituli dico allego et in hiis scriptis propono, ^Sitfvt founda
quod licet de consuetudine laudabili ab olim usitata et tl,OQO*the,
church, and sub-
legitime prescripta, necnon primeva fundatione ecclesie ConfiermeSdtabUtthSe
collegiate predicte, ac statutis ordinationibus et constitutioni- chapter an?' the
bus legitimis postmodum subsecutis, et per Sedem Apostolicam J^^^^*6
confirmatis, districtius et diutissime in ipsa ecclesia observatis *£*, except by
the Archbishop
et juramento vallatis, Capitulum dicte ecclesie collegiate ac
canonici quicumque, omnes et singuli, ejusdem ecclesie qui
pro tempore fuerunt, suis etiam successivis temporibus ab that in MS own
•*• person ; and this
omni et omnimoda visitatione per alium seu alios, preter- custom has been
* . continually used
quam per dominum Archiepiscopum* Eboracensem qui pro and observed
tempore fuerit, et in persona sua propria tantummodo et led?e and aiiow-
una vice dumtaxat pro suo tempore in ecclesia predicta, seu Archbishops and
. the present Arch-
Capitulum predictum canomcosve ipsius ecclesie seu singu- bishop, yet now
. o Lord Alexander,
lares personas eiusdem, quomodolibet facienda etiam per the present Arch-
. r J bishop, wantonly,
mdulta dicte Sedis Apostolice, fuit et est exemptum liberum saving MS reve-
* rence, endeavour-
et immune, fueruntque et prorsus sunt exempti liberi pariter Jngto break this
et immunes, fuissentque dictum Capitulum et canonici dicte injurious, saving
. .A always his reve-
ecclesie collegiate in possessione. seu quasi, huiusmodi rence, letters,
° . r . ', J. seeks to hold an
exemptionis libertatis et immunitatis. et eis usi sunt undefined visita-
tion as ordinary
inconcusse per xl, 1, Ix annos ultra et citra. necnon a by MS commis-
sioners to the
tempore et per tempus cuius contram memoria nomi- gross damage of
... J . . .the chapter and
num non existit etiam pacince et quiete, slclientibus canons, my
. principals.
et toilerantibus Arcmepiscopis Eboracensibus, qui pro-
tempore fuerunt, et Domino Alexandro Archiepiscopo, qui
nunc est, pro tempore suo, ac premissa approbantibus et
eisdem consentientibus, tarn tacite quam expresse usque ad
tempus gravaminum subscriptorum ; Prefatus tamen rever-
endissimus pater, Dominus Alexander, Archiepiscopus
Eboracensis modernus, Anglie Primas et Apostolice Sedis
Legatus, premissas exemptionem liber tatem et immunitatem
nimis voluntarie ipsius patris reverentia semper salva,
infringere satagens et innitens prefatum Capitulum ac
canonicos et prebendarios quoscumque ecclesie supradicte
per suas litteras, salva semper reverentia tanti patris,
injuriosas, ad recipiendum et subeundum personal em visita-
tionem suam ordinariam pretensam in dicta ecclesia collegiata
per ipsum patrem vel suos commissaries incertam et penitus
* Marginal note: Tu es contrarius, in appellatione predicta dicis quod
Archiepiscopus non visitabit etc.
218
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
Wherefore the
proctor appeals,
swearing that ten
days have not
elapsed since the
matter came to
the knowledge of
the canons.
He reserves the
right of
amending, adding
to, or subtracting
from the appeal;
Done before Sir
John Paxtou,
vicar of S. Mar-
tin's, Ludgate,
and others.
Richard of Stren-
salle, public
notary, witnesses.
indeterminatam perficiendam ad terminum nimis brevem et
peremptorium,* nulla rationabili causa in "bac parte expressa
vel aliqualiter subsistenti, citavit, citarive mandavit et fecit
injuste in prefati Capituli et canonicorum dicte ecclesie
collegiate, dominorum meorum, predictorum, prejudicium
dampnum non modicum et gravamen.
Unde ego procurator predictus seiitiens dominos meos
predictos Capitulum supradictum et canonicos, ac me ipsorum
nomine ex predictis gravaminibus et eorum quolibet indebite
pregravari, propter ipsa gravamina et ab eis et que ex eis
colligi poterunt, (4b) et eorum occasione, ad Sacrosanctam
Sedem Apostolicam et dominum nostrum Papam in hiis
scriptis, nomine dominorum meorum, prefati videlicet Capituli
et canonicorum, et etiam nominibus omnium et singulorum
dicte ecclesie collegiate vicariorum,t presbiterorum et cetero-
rum ministrorum dicte ecclesie collegiate prefatis dominis
meis in premissis adherentibus seu adherere volentibus
appello, et Apostolos peto, primo secundo et tertio, instant er,
instantius et instantissime, michi dari et fieri cum effectu;
et juro ad hec sancta Dei evangelia per me corporaliter
tacta, quod decem dies non sunt elapsi ex quo de predictis
gravaminibus et eorum singulis prefato Capitulo et canonicis,
dominis meis, primo innotuit. Et protestor quod hujusmodi
appellationem meam potero emendare, eidemque, si opus
fuerit addere et detrahere, ipsamque omnibus et singulis
quorum interest notificare et intimare, quatenus tutus accessus
adpresentiam dicti doniini Archiepiscopi patere possit, appel-
lationemque meam predictam in eventu prosequi cum effectu
pro loco et tempore oportunis.
Acta sunt hec prout superascribuntur et recitantur anno,
indictione, pontificatu, mense, die et loco predictis, pre-
sentibus discretis viris, Dominis Johanne de Paxton, rectore
ecclesie parochialis Sancti Martini in Ludgate Londoniarum,
Johanne Mulshame, presbitero, Simone Tost, Londonieiisis,
Eliensis, Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesium, testibus ad
premissa vocatis specialiter et rogatis.
Et ego Ricardus de Strensalle, clericus Eboracensis,
publicus auctoritate Apostolica notarius, premiss e appella-
tionis interpositioni et lecture necnon omnibus et singulis
supradictis durn sic ut premittitur agerentur et fierent
(etc. as on p. 216.)
* Marginal note : Habuisti xxvj dies ut patet in citatorio.
f Marginal note : Doce de mandate vicariorum.
ARCHBISHOP NEVILLE'S REGISTER. 219
Appellatio pro parte Domini Ricardi de Ravenser.
In Dei nomine Amen. Anno ab incarnatione Ejusdem [etc. 1330.
as on p. 216 down to] procuratoris nomine venerabilis viri, 20 March.
Domini Ricardi de Ravenser, Archidiaconi Lincolniensis, ofPRavenser,° a
canonici ecclesie collegiate Beati Johannis Beverlacensis, et
Prebendarii prebende Sancti Martini in eadem dicte Ebor-
acensis diocesis, in quadam camera iuxta portam infra
i ... ,. , . . ." \ . . . chamber of the
hospitium reverendi patris et domim, Domini Episcopi Lord Bishop of
Manensis [? Menevensis] in suburbiis Londoniarum, person- the sauburbs?ofm
aliter constitutus quamdam appellationem in scriptis redactam p^ctor, William
legit et interposuit atque Apostolos petiit, protestatus fuit et
juravit sub hac forma verborum.
In Dei nomine Amen. Coram vobis discretis viris autentica
persona et testibus ego, Willelmus Englisshe, procurator
reverendi viri, Domini* Ricardi de Ravenser, Archidiaconi £°chS>ter?ct as
Lincolniensis, canonici ecclesie collegiate Beati Johannis appeal<
Beverlacensis, et Prebendarii prebende Sancti Martini in
eadem, nomine procuratoris pro eodem dico, allego [et] in hiis
scriptis propono quod licet de cousuetudine laudabili ab olim
usitata et legitime prescripta necnon primeva fundatione
ecclesie collegiate predicte, ac statutis, ordinationibus et
constitutionibus legitimis postmodum subsecutis et per Sedem
Apostolicam confirmatis districcius, et diutissime in ipsa
ecclesia observatis, canonici dicte ecclesie collegiate qui-
cumque omnes et singuli qui pro tempore fuerunt suis etiam
successivis temporibus ab omni et omnimoda visitatione per
alium seu alios preterquam per dominum Archiepiscopum f
Eboracensem qui pro tempore fuerit { in persona sua propria
tantummodo, et una vice dumtaxat pro tempore suo in ecclesia
predicta facienda, etiam per indulta dicte Sedis Apos-
tolice liberi fuerunt pariter et immunes fuissentque dicti
canonici ecclesie collegiate ejusdem in posse ssione, seu
quasi, hujusmodi libertatis immunitatis et exemptionis, et
etiam eis usi sunt inconcusse, per xl, 1, Ix annos
ultra et citra et necnon a tempore et per tempus cujus
contrarii memoria non existit, etiam pacifice et quiete,
scientibus [et] tollerantibus Archiepiscopis Eboracensibus qui
pro tempore fuerunt, et dicto Domino Alexandro Archiepis-
* Marginal note : Doce de mandate. Show your authority,
f Marginal note : Quare noluisti comparere coram eo. Why then refuse to
appear before him ?
£ Marginal note : — Nota : Archiepiscopus habet visitare totiens quotiens.
Q 2
220
BEVEKLEY MINSTER :
Adding that the
Abp. is
notoriously an
enemy to the
death of the
appellant, and
some of his
supporters also
pursue
Ravenser with
mortal hatred, so
that there is no
safe access for
him or his
messengers.
copo qui pro tempore nunc est, premissa (5) [ap]probantibus
et eisdem consentientibus, tarn tacite quam expresse usque
ad tempus gravaminum sub script or um ; f uissetque sic dictus
reverendus pater Dominus Alexander, nunc Archiepiscopus
supradictus, per partem domini mei ex eo presertim, sua
reverentia semper salva, quod ipsius Bicardi domini mei fuit,
sicut et prout adhuc est notorium, capitalis mimicus* et
Bicardum, dominum meum predictum, tam idem dominus
Archiepiscopus quam sui et alii sibi adherentes nonnulli
hodie capitali prosecuti fuerunt, prout et adhuc prosecuntur,
adeo quod propter insidias inimicorum suorum predictorum,
nee sibi nee procuratoribus suis aut nunciis tutus t preser-
tim in sua provincia et maxime in dominio suo Beverlacensi ad
eum patuit, nee adhuc patet, accessus, necnon ex aliis causis
gravis suspicionis materiam contrahentibus sufficientibus et
legitimis certis arbitris per ipsum dominum meum debite nomi-
natis et electis canonice et in debita juris forma recusatus.
Cui quidem recusationi ego procurator predictus innitor
dominusque meus innititur, et inniti et eandem juxta juris
exigentiam intendo, et intendit idem dominus meus, prosequi
cum effectu.
Dictus tamen reverendus pater, Dominus Alexander,
Archiepiscopus supradictus, cui de recusatione predicta
ceterisque omnibus et singulis supradictis sufficienter
constabat et constat ad plenum, ipsis non obstantibus, post
et contra ea, et presertim eadem recusatione et causis in
eadem contentis pendentibus indiscussis et adhuc notorie
durantibus, et indies invalescentibus, prefatum Bicardum
dominum meum, canonicum et prebendarium antedictum, ad
recipiendum et subeundum personaliter visitationem suam
ordinariam pretensam in dicta collegiata ecclesia per ipsum
reverendissimum patrem, vel commissarium suum, presertim
incertam et indeterminatam perficiendam ad terminumj
nimis brevem et peremptorium, nulla rationabili causa in hac
parte expressa vel aliqualiter subsistente citavit citarive
mandavit et fecit injuste in ipsius Bicardi canonici et pre-
* Marginal note : Nota, si bene dicas,
f Nota, quod nuncius tuus venit ad dictum Archiepiscopum cum ista scriptura,
et dominus invitavit eum ad prandium ita invitassefc te, si venisses, et dominnm
tuum. Yet your messenger came to the Archbishop with this writing and the
Archbishop asked him to dinner as he would have invited you if you had come,
and your principal.
f Nota, si terminus fuerit brevis, qui fuit xxvj dierum.
ARCHBISHOP NEVILLE'S REGISTER. 221
bendarii supradicti ac prebende sue predicte prejudicium et
gravamen.
Unde ego procurator antedictus sentiens dictum dominum
meum, prebendam suam et me ejus nomine ex premissis Apostles.
gravaminibus et eorum quolibet indebite pregravari, propter
ipsa gravamina et eorum singula et ab eisdem et eorum
quolibet ad Sedem Apostolicam et dominum nostrum Papam
in hiis scrip tis appello et Apostolos peto, primo, secundo et
tertio, instanter, instantius et instantissime, michi dari et fieri
cum effectu subiciens dominum meum predictum, et me ejus
nomine, ac ipsius homines familiares et ministros et omnes in
hac parte eidem adherentes seu adherere volentes protection!
[et] defensioni Curie antedicte. Et juro ad hec sancta
Dei evangelia per me corporaliter tacta quod infra novem swears that
dies proximos preterites michi et domino meo predicto primo only heard of it
* . . . . . within nine days
constituit de premissis gravaminibus, et eorum quolibet, et Past-
non ante. Protestor etiam ego procurator predictus quod
michi predictam appellationem meam corrigere et emend are,
eidemque si opus fuerit addere et detrahere, ipsamque omni-
bus et singulis quorum interest notiiicare et intimare quatenus
tutus accessus ad presentiam dicti domini Archiepiscopi patere
possit, appellationemque meam predictam in eventu proseqni
cum effectu pro loco et tempore oportunis.
Acta sunt hec prout suprascribuntur et recitantur anno,
indictione. pontificatu, mense, die et loco predictis, presen-
tibus discretis viris, Domino Thoma de Frogham, vicario
perpetuo ecclesie parochialis de Aldburry, Londoniensis
diocesis, Thoma de Shirburne et Willelmo Moises, Ebora-
censis diocesis, testibus ad premissa [etc. as in last] .
Die vero Mercurii, videlicet xxvij mensis Mertii, con- 1381.
stitutus personaliter dictus Magister Johannes Kele coram Mn j7
dicto reverendo patre, Alexandro, Eboracensi Archiepiscopo,
pro tribunali sedente in ecclesia Beverlacensi coram summo judgment s^at in
altari, quod [d] am exhibuit scriptum consimilis materie die
precedent! oblatis scripturis. Quod quidem scriptum coram
eodem reverendo patre lectum idem reverendus pater
patienter auscultavit sub eo qui sequiter tenore.
[5d] Tenor dicti scripti, ut premittitur, per modum appella-
iionis pro parte Capituli Beverlacensis.
In Dei nomine Amen. Per presens publicum instrumentum
cunctis appareat evidenter quod anno ab incarnatione Domini 23 March.
222 BEVERLEY MINSTER :
secundum cursum et computationem ecclesie Anglicane
millesimo cccmo octogesimo, indictione quarta, pontificatus
stUFeaith'S parish, sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini, Domini Urbani, divina
London. providentia Pape sexti, anno tertio, et mense Mertii die
vioesimo tertio, in presentia mei, Johannis, notarii auctoritate
apostolica publici, et testium subscriptorum in hospitio
habitationis mee in parochia Sancti Fidis Yirginis Londoniis
situate, consti tutus personaliter discretus vir, WiUelmus
Englisshe, clericus Eboracensis diocesis, procurator, ut
asseruit, venerabilium virorum.* Capituli ecclesie collegiate
Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis ad infrascripta sufficientem ut
asseruit habens potestatem, quandam appellationem, Aposto-
lorum petitiones, et juramentorum prestationes, in scriptis
redactas, fecit, legit et interposuit, ac Apostolos petiit sepius
et instanter, et ad sancfca Dei evangelia per eundem corpo-
raliter tacta juravit, prout in quadam cedula papiri quam
idem procurator in manu sua tune tenebat et legebat plenius
continetur. Cujus ceduli tenor sequitur in hec verba :
In Dei nomine Amen. Coram vobis discretis viris
autentica persona et testibus Ego, WiUelmus Englisshe,
clericus Eboracensis diocesis procurator et procuratoris
nomine venerabilium virorum Capituli ecclesie collegiate
Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis Eboracensis diocesis, dico,
allego et in hiis scriptis propono, quod licet de consue-
tudine laudabili ab olim usitata et legitime prescripta nec-
non a primeva fundatione ecclesie collegiate predicte ac
statutis ordinationibus et consuetidinibus legitimis postmo-
dum subsecutis, et rationabiliter editis, et per Sedem
Apostolicam confirmatis districtius, et diutissime in ipsa
ecclesia probatis et observatis, canonici, vicarii et alii
ministri dicte Ecclesie quicumque et familiares eorundem
eorumque tenentes de jurisdictione dicti Capituli existentes
fuerunt et sunt ab omni jurisdictione primaria Domini Archi-
episcopi Eboracensis secundum modum infrascriptum liberi et
immunes et prorsus exempti et jurisdictioni Capituli ecclesie
collegiate predicte Sancti Johannis supradicti inmediate
subditi et subjecti, quodque causarnm quarumcumque
civilium et criminalium, spiritualium et temporalium, ad
forum ecclesiasticum spectantium primaria cognitio, et eorum
decisio, infra jurisdictionem ejusdem ecclesie collegiate
* Marginal note : Set mandatum non produxit, ideo non doceat. But as he
produced no authority, he should not teach.
ARCHBISHOP NEVILLE'S REGISTER. 223
inter canonicos, vicarios aliasque personas quascumque juris-
dictionis predicte emergentium, necnon visitatio, inquisitio,
correctio et punitio et debita reformatio quorumcumque
excessuum dicte jurisdictionis subditorum et eorum famili-
arium, presertiin infra jurisdictionem commorantium, seu
inibi quomodolibet delinquentium ; necnon testamentorum
omnium et singulorum canonicorum ministrorum et famili-
arium ac tenentium predictorum et aliorum infra jurisdic-
tionem predictam testantium, seu in eorum ultima voluntate
disponentium, aparitio, insinuatio, probationis admissio et
approbatio, ac administrationis bonorum dictorum defunc-
torum testamenta concernentium et ab intestato deceden-
tium commissio, calculi et ratiociniorum hujusmodi adminis-
trationis auditio, discus [s]io, receptio, litterarumque acquie-
tantie super adrninistratione hujusmodi factio et finalis
liberatio seu dimissio, necnon aparitoris ministri seu bedelli
dicti Capituli ad portandum ante ipsum Capitulum in pro-
cessionibus in ipsa ecclesia faciendis virgam vel baculum et
ad citationes quorumcunque subditorum dicte jurisdictionis
coram dicto Capitulo, aut causarum Auditore ipsius Capituli,
comparere debentium; necnon aliorum ministrorum dicte
ecclesie collegiate prefectio, deputatio, ammotio et libera et
plena dispositio ad Capitulum ecclesie collegiate predicte
solum et insolidum pertinuit et pertinet, et pertinere debet
etiam infuturum, appellationum seu querelarum causis ad
ipsum dominum Archiepiscopum devolutis seu devolvendis, ac
visitatione dicti domini Archiepiscopi Eboracensis qui pro tern-
pore fueritactualiter et canonic e, in persona sua propria tantum-
modo, et non per alios commissarios suos vel ministros, et una
vice dumtaxat pro tempore suo in ecclesia predicta facienda
dumtaxat exceptis ; f ueruntque venerabiles viri Capitulum
predicte ecclesie collegiate Beverlacensis in possessione, seu
quasi, juris libertatum et immunitatum predictorum pacifica
et quieta ; omniaque et singula superius expressata ad dictum
Capitulum, ut premittitur, spectantia, sic ut prefertur, exhi-
bendi et expediendi, et eadem exercuerunt, fecerunt et
expediverunt, et hujusmodi libertatem et immunitatem
tenuerunt et habuerunt etiam solum et insolidum^ exceptis
illis dumtaxat que superius sunt excepta, per xl, 1, Ix
annos, ultra et citra, necnon a tempore et per tempus cujus
contrarii memoria hominum non existit, inconcusse, pacifice,
pariter et quiete, scientibus [et] tollerantibus Archiepiscopis
224
BEVERLEY MINSTER :
Recital of appeal,
Nevertheless the
Archbishop, with
no legal right,
Attempting to
infringe the
liberties of the
church and
destroy the juris-
diction of the
Chapter,
In the chapel of
the chapter
altar behind the
chair, a place
notoriously
exempt from his
jurisdiction, and
daily exercises
jurisdiction
against divers
men and women
exempt from his
jurisdiction.
Thus he cited the
executors of
Richard Kyllyng,
who while he
lived was in the
exempt jurisdic-
tion, and made
them prove his
will already
proved before the
chapter's assessor ;
qui pro tempore fuerunt, et Domino Alexandro Archiepiscopo
qui nunc est, pro tempore suo, et premissa approbantibus et
eisdem consentientibus tarn tacite quam expresse usque ad
tempus gravaminium sub scrip torum.
Quodque pro parte dicti Capituli ecclesie collegiate pre-
dicte in possessione premissorum omnium et singulorum
existentium, metuentium ex quibusdam causis probabilibus et
verisimilibus conjecturis posse sibi efc aliis eorum jurisdictione
subditis in premissis, (6) et circa ea grave prejudicium
geiierari, Ne quis in ipsius Capituli Sancti Johannis Bever-
lacensis seu aliorum quorumcunque jurisdictioni ejusdem
Capituli, ut premittitur, subditorum prejudicium circa pre-
missa vel eorum aliquod quicquam attemptet seu faciat
aliqualiter attemptari, citando, monendo, inquirendo, visi-
tando, corrigendo, puniendo, interdicendo, suspendendo, ex-
communicando, sequestrando seu alio quovismodo gravando,
ad Sedem Apostolicam et dominum nostrum Papam palam et
publice legitime extitit provocatum et provocando appel-
latum.
Keverendus tamen in Christo pater, Dominus Alexander,
Archiepiscopus Eboracensis supradictus, nullam in hac parte
habens jurisdictionem, seu aliquamaliamlegitimam potestatem,
dictis provocationibus et appellationibus ceterisque premissis,
que ipsum verisimiliter non latebant, non obstantibus, post et
contra ea, molliens consuetudinem primevamque fundationem
dicte ecclesie collegiate, ac statuta ordinationes et constitu-
tiones ejusdem ecclesie collegiate rationabiles, confirmatas et
duitissime observatas, ac jura et libertates ejusdem ecclesie
subvertere, de quibus premittitur, infringere et penitus
enervare jurisdictionem ecclesiasticam tarn voluntariam quam
etiam contentiosam in capella altaris capitularis sita retro
chorum ecclesie predicte, ab ejus jnrisdictione notorie
exempta, in diversos viros et mulieres ad hujusmodi locum
citatos per se et commissarios suos et officiales excercere, et
capitulum in eadem celebrare, et ipsosque corrigere et punire
pro suis excessibus, eisdem citatis per ipsos commissarios et
officiales impositos temerarie de diebus in dies presumit, ac
dicti Commissarii de ejus mandate et assensu 
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